MANIFESTO

Each day, human life is more costly and less valuable.
Luis Eduardo Aute.

I had a vision. This vision came as part of a deep involvement in the meaning and value of art and design. I abandoned isolation and became aware of others and the outside world. I learned that art and design go beyond the making of objects, of composition and beauty. The process, the rituals and the practice itself are not the means but the goals of the work. The way things are approached, the reason to do art and for whom is it intended, gained value against the concern for a final outcome of art within itself.
I must learn to walk one mile in the others’ shoes. I have to see (not to imagine) myself in the place of another, a user, a viewer, and then form this schizophrenic position, figure out what I demand, what I require from these art works and designs as audience:
I deserve to have friends. I am entitled to love and be loved, to receive affection and understanding and to be considered valuable as a human being. I want to be heard, to be seen, to be recognized in my own person and circumstance. I am important, valuable and free. Therefore want the possession of my decisions. I want to decide where, how and with what I live. I share with others the common heritage of mankind, which is value itself. I deserve my space and my things. Intimacy, hygiene, natural lighting, enough shadow, shelter, warmth, fresh air, are not luxuries. They are my right. I should have the right to configure my own living space. I deserve to be asked about the spaces I share with others in my family, neighborhood, town and city. I am capable of participating in the design of my world, to decide about my own life. I will not surrender my freedom to have to buy it later from another.
Therefore, my work is not about ethics, not even I work ethically, but my work places human being in the center, at the core. To share a vision of the world through human life, and engage the other in this sharing is that I became an artist.

Prepositions.

From, to, for, behind. The most difficult elements of a language (to use properly) are prepositions. But I also think that prepositions open, by themselves, a whole interesting field of research and/or inspiration. I have seen some interesting artworks (minimal or conceptual) that explore these amazing elements, but I think that the potential is not exhausted. For example, architecture is the art of prepositions. Being IN the city, moving THROUGH a space... to lay IN the shadow proyected by a palapa, even though that we don't lay UNDER the structure (the shadow is projected OUTSIDE the imaginary space WITHIN the structure) opens an interesting set of onthological questions about the being of space, but also epystemological questions of how we use space and its relation to behaviour and language.