I had the pleasure of meeting this year Kanwal Sangha, who was a year in Portugal to write one book. I give him to know my work and now he offers me this text about this piece I did recently, in continuation of the previous in 2013
"We absorb all sensations like sponges. Petal to petal, a flower is constructed the same way a human being inwardly builds white, black red and brown; colors are the meaning of absorbing sensations: purity, pain, love, always based on feelings.
A
flower cannot be taught to obey. We go to them like hungry lovers, immerse our
emotions. We want to touch them in ways we have never been touched before.To
make this happen, art needs evolution of its own life form in order to be. The
work characterises a relationship to nature which is based on sensation and
desire, conscious that nature is distinct and unique. Therefore, apprehension
is not based on copying experience but in the making of the work: the heartbeat
of the artist is aware the work knows limits of human experience but realises appropriation
as failure of representation.
A
flower, like love, “is a many splendored thing.” It is a spectacle in romance
and in death. We give it a role and sometimes we think we can control its
purpose. This work is not reduced to ornamental limits. It comes out of the
body of the artist: her arms, hands, fingers, feet, hips, legs. It is a dance
of time, as the work appears, the movement changes, to shape, cohere and to give
space to imagination and the body. Why
else does an artist call her output a “body of work”?
A
flower recalls many sensations: the touch of a lover, the dead in war, a road
accident. Like the petals of marigold for the Indian dead on the river Ganges,
remind us in their colour and discoloration, nature, life and death form a
unique relationship and powerful memories.
Sofia
Beça “writes with clay”. When I look at her flowers I want to reach out and
touch, put my lips to the petal, the absorbent ones, next to its neck, my ear
to it shell-like aperture."
K. Sangha
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