With Flowers

“During the last week I’ve been drawing, mostly flowers, motivated by a curiosity which has little to do with either botany or aesthetics. I have been asking myself whether natural forms – a tree, a cloud, a river, a stone, a flower – can be looked at and perceived as messages. Messages – it goes without saying – which can never be verbalised, and are not particularly addressed to us. Is it possible to ‘read’ natural appearances as texts? (…) It is a gestural exercise, whose aim is to respond to different rhythms and forms of energy, which I like to imagine as texts from a language that has not been given to us to read. Yet as I trace the text I physically identify with the thing I’m drawing and with the limitless, unknown mother tongue in which it is written.” – John Berger, Confabulations, Penguin, 2016, pp.136-137.

With Amat Vallmajor, Borja Rodriguez, Humberto Vallejo, Martha Helga Lopez, Martin Alvarez, Maitane Ruiz, Olatz Arrieta Aguileta and Sandra Garcia Bueno.