For something to be art, it must meet certain conditions. One of them is that it not be real; it must be fiction, discourse. Artists use images that are not entirely familiar. Something stands out and points out that this object is trying to mean something, to say, to offer a constructed sensory experience. Its existence is possible only through the transcendence of instinct, and in the affirmation of the individual as autonomy.

A permanent and ever-present resource, asphalt is a dark and viscous material derived from petroleum, usually employed to coat and waterproof pavement. But what happens when this material is fragmented and eroded by climatic causes, so that it becomes a dispensable chunk whose functionality is suspended? During her strolls through the streets of Bogotá, Laura | … |

A look at The Notebooks: Sketches by Designers, Illustrators, and Creatives by Richard Brereton, published by BLUMEN in 2009.                  

The universe expands and is born out of friendship. Whoever doesn’t understand this, does not understand the dark sympathy of the universe. The sympathy that moves everything internally is continuously the intuition of friendship. Whoever understands this—let us insist—opens up the universe with a strike of light. Under this perspective, all the sacred books sentence | … |