Affections

Affections are my kaleidoscope of memories. Reflects on the persons who had influenced me through their personalities and stories, and the presence of my private space tuned with its surroundings. When I am in a new place I need to fill it as my own. I want to know what resemblances I find there with myself. So I started to portray my wife Teresa and my private space. This parallelism between her presence, her body, the organization of the space on the room, and the objects on it was my beginning… At that time this was the most close to me and what I could easily connect. Then, it was my friends, and others in which their personal stories somehow have had effect on my understanding of what I feel in what I see. I portrayed them in their different emotional states, with an attention to their body language and apparent movements. In my room, was the balance between how this space was already organized and how I decided to place my personal belongings. Outside, I tried to find a resemblance between her, them, their bodies and my room on its surroundings. Tokyo and Yamanashi, Japan; 2010-2012.