_Portraits_
written in the narrator,
human responds,
imagines,
reads backwards,
releases texts from her memory
in return invitations
from the wind – she will confess
and nothing more.
invents herself in search of geographies to understand her hands, will be
an egg,
an intermittent study
turns inside her body-while...she laughs.

-Mónica Valenciano-

In October last year I was invited by Alicia Chillida (ex-director of the CAAM) to take part in the project Laboratorio B9, a multidisciplinary meeting of artists from the Canary Islands organised for the first time over the summer by the CAAM.  From this experience I produced CAM CAM DUO (Solo Solo Duo) with Natalia Medina, and one of the solos was Carmen estampada.

I love painting, and I wanted to leave a statement in images in an exhibition space.... that was the starting point for the Carmen estampada.
Over time, this has become:

• A corner of a white wall in which to draw while I walk.
• A medium-trajectory on which to carry out an intricate drawing of sediments of the past.
• The bodies of Carmen gradually taking note of memory events.
• A + fruitless attempt to understand the other, accompanying the shadow.

Proposed actions:  to discover vocations; invent a geography; outline a shape; draw a dot; scour a (memory) map; perceive sounds; inhabit feelings; collect phrases; be carried away by an instinct.