Confessions on the Canvas: Self-Confessional Poetry and Painting as Mirrors of Being
Published by Óscar Preciado on July 16, 2024 in:
Art, Cielos de alquitrán, Colaterales, Literature, Painting, Poetry.
«The phrases of Óscar Preciado inspired this painting, phrases that evoke loves of the past, kisses that devour us today, or perhaps those loves that never were and only live in our minds. The words that were spoken and remained, those that were omitted, and those we wish we had said.»
— Marcela Robayo
«We were synchronicity.» It takes a special sensitivity to materialize the depth of a work whose character depends on so many tones, words, conjunctions, and meanings.
«Give me fire, baby, I said. Her lips burned more than the other end of my cigarette.»
When I wrote Cielos de alquitrán I thought about leaving on paper a brief portrait of the experiences that shaped my way of thinking, feeling, and living.
«The nicotine clouded the nerves that perceive the broken soul», little time passed before I became fully aware of the map I was leaving behind, one that reflected from the literary realm moments that were consummated and left me empty, and others — as suggested by Marcela's accurate interpretation at some point — that never materialize and, despite that lack of substance, end up beating eternally among the reflections and shadows of our memories.
The work brought into reality in acrylic and plaster on canvas is a nod to unfinished loves, desired ones that never reach the climax of their fulfillment, and likewise the overflow of passion that spills across every edge of the skin when the world provides what is necessary for coincidences to flourish.
Like this one, many of her paintings transcend essential material from everyday life into the artistic realm, but to see this one in particular is to observe a prism of feelings and moments from several angles in a single plane, because literary developments and artistic manifestation converge, in that symbiosis becoming a unique creation.