Experimental video-loop, 1:26". Madrid 2010.
This project starts by a chance. While reviewing old sketch books where I used to sketch ideas, random drawings, concepts... I found the track.
Among them I found a very good selection of "faces sketches" , automatically generated, I mean drawing without thinking. Mysterious characters from nowhere, sometimes in one piece and sometimes falling apart, sometimes as mutations or shapeshifting.
I realised while drawing automatically, following the ink line mark on my notebook, this random lines brought me into portrait shapes, I mean characters. Just that protuberance on the end of human body, useful to identify, personalize, communicate... a glance for empathyse, the face-head.
A portrait always try to reach the same point: not only the shape of a person but its psyche. A portrait is an image of a space that reflect the otherself, a notime or space mirrow. A cartoon dramatize and simplify the same psyche, being figurative anyway. When I am drawing I manipulate these shapes and then fun starts. Some time this manipulations are materic and another times abstracts or graphic. Breaking through surface armony and shape in a threatening being by its own undefinition, identity dispersion.
Shapeshifting proccess find beautiful abstract moments which means a liberation of forms out of meanings or references. Creating for moments an non illustrative but a sensitive drawing. This is the main idea on this proyect. Metamorphosys is the meaning of change itself, the important issue is not the result but the proccess. Evolution is a coherent history of these changes. Maybe that is why is recurrent issue in my automatic drawing notebook.
This project is formed ny a sellection from that notebook.
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FACEbook Video from Andi Rivas on Vimeo.
