Where ART Lives Magazine Volume 1 Number 6 | Page 79

“I remember someone speaking of eternity and I asked what it was. They said
endless space and time. I was probably about 4 or 5 years old, so I had not even
developed abstract reasoning. I imagined going out into space beyond the
solar system and then there was a brick wall, but what was beyond that? My mind
would create all kinds of worlds beyond the walls, but I never got to
comprehending eternity. I am still contemplating it and my my gallery exhibition
in 2016 is called Space-Time.
As a child I would sometimes stand on my head and look at the world upside
down. I would imagine walking on the ceiling and having to jump to go through a
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doorway.
Throughout my life, when confronted with a thought dilemma, I still turn
my thinking upside down to come up with new answers or lines of thinking.
I grew up with scientists and artists both and was always encouraged to use all of
my talents. I learned color mixing sitting next to my great-aunt Santa Duran, who
taught me to paint at the age of 5. She showed me how to mix colors, but I always
heard and felt them. It was a very intuitive process. Later when I studied science
and optics, I would know all about color perceptions and wavelengths, but I
would still sense color. I could feel it.
I have a crossing of the senses, or synesthesia, and I have always sensed things in
non-traditional ways. I would “hear” numbers, feel others sensations, see
wavelengths and music would weave colors. I see the world as a matrix,
sometimes it is moving slowly and I can get a glimpse between the pixels; and
sometimes it is moving so fast it is like a blur that takes on a whole new sensation
of sound, taste, feel and color. I think I have always experienced altered sensations
and this is what I paint.”

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