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My Little Books Personal Glossary - Press
These brief extracts from my own texts and from other people’s writings have accompanied me throughout these 30 years of research and graphic experience, and reveal some of the unifying threads of my work. I have recorded much of this material in dozens of small sketch books, which are like logbooks in movement that I still keep.
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2004
…transcending, distant, disquiet... disillusion... permanent physical departure, she sought the light, from the moment she knew, from that point on she gave up her physical body to return to her original home... —Costa Rica, Rossella Matamoros …it is the text, the image and the action in unison, where I seek to dwell. —Costa Rica, Rossella Matamoros Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in the grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense. —Rumi 2005 A bridge, an inevitable crossing … a process, thousands of processes that accompanied the final journey beyond to the great lesson/initiation. —Costa Rica, Rossella Matamoros 2006 Entering into the drawing itself by re-contextualizing it, experiencing drawing in another way, moving closer to the primitive experience of drawing with lime or sand. Participating in drawing as a tool for creating a scenic garment... —Costa Rica, Rossella Matamoros 2008 Signsonmymother: A relationship that came from the stars when we traveled in lights, a relationship from the womb, from before, an intense journey with a thousand variants and missions also, with the ritual seal of life-death-life. —Costa Rica, Rossella Matamoros 2009 Ah not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner—what is it? If not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of home coming. —Rainer Maria Rilke Between my eyes and between my arms, I feel the energies of others...my futures. —Costa Rica, Rossella Matamoros 2010 My hands, from where vestigial images emerge... all dancing to the beat of thousands of points of view, objective-subjective, all and more. Their force drags those who are not yet here and their light shines in triangular transparency. —Costa Rica. Rossella Matamoros Each and every man has the most precious building in the world in his head, feelings and free will. —Joseph Beuys My art is based on a belief in a universal energy that runs through everything [...]. My works are the irrigation veins of that universal fluid. Through them rises the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulation, unconscious thoughts that animate the world… Above all, there is the search for our origin. —Ana Mendieta Matter is solid because probability patterns are difficult to compress. Life is lots of probability patterns of interconnections. —Dialogue Liv Ulman in the film Mind walk We are all part of one inseparable web of relationships... interdependencies, the well of all living things...feeling the universe, is an invisible walk... —Dialogue Liv Ulman in the film Mind walk The eternal present, the eternal world… the eternal being. Life and death integrated all in one. What is within, what is without. The beautiful and the monstrous, light and dark, coming and going. The warp and weft, from the ancestral to the instantaneous. —Costa Rica. Rossella Matamoros 2011 Ah, but the step of time: think of it as a dream in what forever remains... all things already rest: darkness and morning light, flower and book. —Rainer Maria Rilke To better position myself in the contemporary social and global process, I have set myself the task of investigating different philosophies and cultural and artistic expressions, trying to find the unifying thread and the guiding principle that will allow me to understand the human being in relation to his planet and his universe. —Costa Rica. Rossella Matamoros Time. Time lived, time forgotten, time shared. What does time inflict – dust and disintegration? My reminiscences help me live in the present, and I want them to survive. I am a prisoner of my emotions. You have to tell your story, and you have to forget your story. You forget and forgive. It liberates you. —Louise Bourgeois 2012 Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light. —John 12, 35-36 2013 If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is: infinite. --William Blake 2014 For within her is a sprit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, incisive, unsullied, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, shrewd, irresistible, beneficent, friendly to human beings… —Wisdom 7 |