Santa Clara Isabel prefers to deconstruct the universe around us, instead of showing the obvious. A dynamic that runs through her work and seeks a reflection from the viewer, his most critical insight. A concept of art that she shares with their students and a concern that extends to all artistic projects in which she participates.
What sought to address in this piece?
Isabel Santa Clara: As it was for this specific space of Calheta felt like work in the surrounding landscape, what can be walked from here to see it. The canvas is also a very unusual shape and so I felt like recall and use this ratio to evoke a slender ladder and the terraces at the bottom of our rugged landscape. So I worked from this zone, the pebbles and sand of the houses going up, up the mountain to the sky. Not intended to represent a landscape, but to make an evocation of that route.
The color addresses this concern the mountain and the sea?
ISC: If you notice there is a ladder drawn in blue is the same as those made by hand, connecting spaces deputies. I used this idea, but also used blue to dematerialize, because it draws its materiality. The letters are a kind of stamp evokes the basalts of the island. Our rock is very gray. What I wanted to address was the contrast between the stone and the beauty of the sea. Printing stole a little color on canvas, it became more blurred.
Speaking of your work, the places you wander influence it?
ISC: We are always marked by the places where we grew up and where. They are with us, mark our memory. I think in some paintings I did that turns out to reflect. The boundary between land and sea and others that also has to do with our landscape.
So what inspires you?
ISC: I usually work our relationship with space. The way runs through them, feel them and I participated in the exhibitions seek to work precisely the spaces, put the pieces in a dialogue in the area of the house, which is an idea that sought to develop. The interior spaces. It is this aspect of where and how we look at things.
