Abuelita
(Granny)
Abuelita (Granny) is the result of a writing and drawing exercise, aswell as some of the first artworks on which I mix both techniques.
For this artwork I started writing a text, trying to describe my grandmother through some metaphors and then trying to translate it to drawing. For the making of the drawing I took some elements of the descriptions of the text i wrote, like fabrics, threads and embroidery, making a juxtaposition of the elements and techniques as two possible ways of making a portrait, that to me are also objects, materials and things that remind me of my grandmother.
Text:
"Your light hair, clear as the pass of time, it grows and has fallen but still it decorates you with that delicateness that you own.
We see your hair as the threads with which you have knitted so many stories and memories.
The memories you carry inside of you have left its marks as lines making drawings on you, drawing your face, your hands, drawing all of your body and they tell us how underneath that big forehead we can find wisdom from years, like the old books of many used pages.
And still we can see your eyebrows with a little more definition above those small eyes, clouded and tired but attentive, awaken since early and sometimes they carry mirrors that reveal the reality, realities that weren’t like this before.
Surely your nose is shaped like that because you spend your time with your face into the pages of many books, and in spite your mouth that hasn’t been captured by the lenses of the cameras with big smiles, it always has something to say.
Threads and yarns of every color had knit, until this moment 84 times.
How much more fabric is left, we don't know, we only expect to see your beautiful embroidery when it's finished."