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The experience of discontinuity shows us how, for a few fleet- ing moments, something ceases to be itself in order to become something else and evidences how these instants survive only in memory as an active residue of its own process.The discussion between being and seeming arises precisely in those situations of interference and merging in which each substance takes on a new appearance not formerly part of its own specificity.They are reciprocal influences based on the proximity and disconti- nuity of the material used.
The purity of the specific is altered in each position and new relationship, and types of matter with a particular density and transparency cease to be what they are and take on another appearance. It is like the amalgam, in which the whole forms a new unity and in which the boundaries dissolve to give way to a larger territory, which is now a mixture.
Space and time are fundamental factors in the process of shaping our images, sometimes including diverse and very distant processes and situations. Distancing and proximity, as
a continuous exercise in fostering the instability of the process, spurs me to use types of matter that are divided between histor- ical memory and the present time. An exploration of the diverse forms of confrontation and simultaneous contrast, as a permanent doubt and infinite multiplication towards diversity.
Each immersion leads me to new flights and towards different territories. It is as if each reconnaissance were to give rise to new boundaries that again impel me to head outwards, for only stable substances do not change.
Written in Bochum, September 1989.
First published in exh. cat. Agua Amarga, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca, 1996.
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