Ink Geographies

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations… of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist’s essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion… an ever expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don’t know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, “el virus”, he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.