The final page is not an ending.Every system has a temptation. Closure. The completed diagram. The final answer. The last piece placed into the correct position. The Chimera resists this.Toward the end of the book, Gala and Salvador begin to work with cards. On one side, observations are recorded: position, orientation, sequence, conditions. On the … Continue reading The Unwritten Plate
The Glyph That Does Something
An image can describe. A glyph can act.We are accustomed to asking an image what it represents. What does it depict? What does it symbolize? What does it remind us of? The Chimeric Glyph Script asks a different question: What does the image do?The plates in The Chimeric Protocols are not illustrations waiting for a … Continue reading The Glyph That Does Something
The First Division
What happens when a book begins to change before it is opened? A book can remain closed and still begin to change. Before there is a story, there is a separation. Somewhere inside the unopened volume, a line of blue attention begins to draw itself upward. It is precise. Cool. Almost architectural. It knows the … Continue reading The First Division
CGS: Toward a New Language Between Image and Literature
I see the Chimeric Glyphic System (CGS) not simply as a collection of symbols, nor as an invented alphabet, but as an attempt to create a new space between visual art and literature. My ambition is to develop it into a language in which an image can be read, a sentence can be seen, a … Continue reading CGS: Toward a New Language Between Image and Literature
Barcelona. Book of the passages by Jorge Carrión.
Carrión would be the strongest additional figure for the specific idea of Barcelona as an archive, network and living text . Jorge Carrión's Barcelona. Book of the passages is a hybrid work of urban essay, travel chronicle, autobiography, journalism and archival investigation. Rather than describing Barcelona through its famous monuments or official neighborhoods , Carrión … Continue reading Barcelona. Book of the passages by Jorge Carrión.
The origins of the Chimeric Glyph System: the Barcelona Five.
This post is dedicated to the five Barcelonese that were especially relevant to the CGS project : Evru / Zush , Lluís Permanyer , Claudi Alsina, Colita, and Jorge Wagensberg . Together, they represent five different ways of understanding Barcelona: as an invented symbolic territory, a historical memory, a geometric structure, a photographed social body, … Continue reading The origins of the Chimeric Glyph System: the Barcelona Five.
The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and The Book of Split Ink (2)
Two entities. One single volume. One shared transformation.The chimeric protocols of transmutation and The Book of Divided Ink is a hybrid work that unites glyphic art, existential fiction, symbolic alchemy and urban fantasy in the visible and hidden strata of Barcelona.The first entity, The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation , consists of a sequence of plates … Continue reading The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and The Book of Split Ink (2)
III. The Twin-Voiced Vessel
Striped in the alternating tones of night and noon,the Twin-Voiced Vessel sings from both ends at once —two heads in perpetual argument,yet one luminous heart between them. Its song is both harmony and discord,a melody that bends truth into understanding.To drink from its hollow bodyis to speak truths you never knew you bore —utterances drawn … Continue reading III. The Twin-Voiced Vessel
II. The Silver Quill of Wind-Speech
Born from the hush between clouds,the Silver Quill drifts through the high air,its hollow stem filled with a captive gale.Where it passes, the sky briefly remembers its own handwriting. It inscribes poems on vapor,maps of invisible currents traced in trembling light.Those who find one fallen to earth are told to lift it gently —for within … Continue reading II. The Silver Quill of Wind-Speech
I. The Ember-Crowned Sentinel
Feathers like molten dusk,its crown glows with the last light of every storm.Perched upon roots of twilight,it watches the border between dream and waking —a guardian of the threshold where thought becomes sound. Those who meet its gaze feel their questions smolder,their certainties ash.It answers only in sparks,each one a riddle that flickers and is … Continue reading I. The Ember-Crowned Sentinel
Page of Red Machines
An architecture of scarlet tendons builds itself,branching into stars, ladders, and hesitant halos. Globes pulse at the summit,each crowned with a loop like a keyhole of breath. Yellow beams descend through ribbed vaults,liquid sound made visible. Beneath, folds of red fabric move like memory rehearsing itself,stitched into a frame of black logic—a choreography of hunger … Continue reading Page of Red Machines
9. Analects — Confucius (China)
The Analects present a prescriptive dynamics for social stability. Rituals and hierarchical roles are selection rules: perform them correctly and social coherence emerges. The Analects thus provide precise Lagrangian terms that penalize deviance and reward conformity, producing low-entropy social arrangements.A lean Realiton (N + D±) stabilized through ethical clarity. Dissonatons (D±) emerge in the friction … Continue reading 9. Analects — Confucius (China)
Lena Snow: The Visionary Behind Goddessarts Magazine
At the very core of Goddessarts Magazine’s identity is Lena Snow—a creator whose vision has been the magazine’s guiding force from its inception. As the founder and artistic spirit behind the publication, Lena Snow’s passion for championing meaningful, transformative art is woven into every page and initiative.Lena’s journey began with a desire to carve out … Continue reading Lena Snow: The Visionary Behind Goddessarts Magazine
6. The Upanishads (India)
The Upanishads function as renormalization techniques for inner life. They propose methods for subtracting superficial divergences—ego, desire—to reveal a more fundamental field of Brahman. Practices they recommend (meditation, ethical discipline) are operators reducing self-interaction terms and allowing consciousness to experience unified modes. In SLM, the Upanishads describe a path to lower-energy coherence: when the individual … Continue reading 6. The Upanishads (India)
The contemporary critical art theory
A common critique of the art world is the emphasis on financial gain over critical engagement with art theory. Many artists feel that the focus on monetization, particularly through NFTs and other speculative markets, overshadows the potential for deeper artistic and social commentary. This can lead to a situation where artistic merit is secondary to … Continue reading The contemporary critical art theory
Geographies
Last week I submited some contribution to an open call launched by LoosenArt who is inviting photographers, video makers and digital visual designers to take part in the collective exhibition "Geographies: an exploration between places, environments and cultures", an exhibition project that seeks to question and narrate the many forms of contemporary geography: physical and … Continue reading Geographies
Reshuffling my Art and Finding my own Style.
I decided to pause the report of my quest into the canon of the world literature because there was a similar hiatus in my exploration process back then in 2015 that actually lasted till May 20th, 2015. Instead I'm going to expand a little bit upon how I've recently developed my own artist's style or … Continue reading Reshuffling my Art and Finding my own Style.
An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
The title and image of this post refer to an artistically diary in which I’m resuming and catalogizing my artistic and literary creations, larded with thoughts, philosophies, and observations that induced them.The chronological order in which the works were produced has been abandoned in favor of a systematic approach were the subjects are brought together … Continue reading An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm
This installation critiques urbanism for potentially perpetuating a systemic gentrify-cation, emphasizing that the ideal of creating cultural-historical homogenic modern real estate overlooks the economic realities faced by many inhabitants of poorer neighborhoods, which often cannot sustain such developments. The European subsides for such projects are too often getting into the pockets of real estate project … Continue reading Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm
About Transcribing Finnegans Wake in plain English.
The primary transcription goal of Finnegans Wake into Here Comes Everybody’s Karma (isbn 9781737783299) was to open Joyce’s Opus Magnum for a wider reading public by replacing the foreign language idiosyncrasies with an English equivalent and by streamlining Joyce’s sibylline prose.This required me to engage with the prose of Finnegans Wake that goes beyond that … Continue reading About Transcribing Finnegans Wake in plain English.