I am continuing the revision and culmination of a body of work in development, focused on the formalisation of a group of sculptures made using materials and processes that have become a constant in my way of working: recycled paper and cardboard, collected and processed textiles – cotton and denim – and the reuse of the waste from both of these to generate fibre and vegetable pulp using the industrial Hollander beater machine, a water circuit with a giant set of hands/blades, created in Holland in the seventeenth century to speed up the paper production process, using a similar mechanical process to that of the Spanish fulling mills.
Starting from language, and particularly from the verbs – fields of action – associated with sculpture, the idea is to generate pieces that are governed by the mechanics of the machines used for their production, examining the translation of physical resonances through the material, questioning whether words can restore a presence or whether the traceability of a material can support the weight of an image.
