Images are not Linear and logical, they pile up on each other and defy reason. poetic reasoning leads not to satisfying conclusions, but to unending sense of deepening.
-Tomas Moore, Te Planets Within, Chapter 5
A lil' bit about me AUF DEUTSCH…
Ana Vera ist eine bildende Künstlerin, die in Guadalajara, Mexiko, geboren und aufgewachsen ist. Sie interessierte sich schon immer für Kunst, entschied sich aber für ein Psychologiestudium, obwohl sie immer darüber nachdachte, in die Kunst zu wechseln. 2013 reiste sie zum ersten Mal aus Mexiko nach Peru, wo sie ihren Partner traf. Nach dieser Reise beschloss sie, Psychologie aufzugeben und sich der Kunst zu widmen.
2014 reiste sie mit ihrem Partner durch Mittelamerika und 2015 heirateten sie in Deutschland, wo sie mit ihrem Mann lebt. Beide leben und arbeiten in Kassel. Seit 2018 studiert sie Bildende Kunst an der Kunsthochschule Kassel.
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Statement
I find it a bit strange to call myself an artist, although that is what I do, I don’t want to define myself purely by that. On the other hand I consider that the artistic person must in a way live an artistic life, meaning that Art is everywhere outside the atelier. Life is art and Art is alive, inspiration is everywhere and as much as I am the one who constructs or brings to manifestation whatever Idea or inspiration is being shown to me, it does not belong to me. I believe life itself and the energy that makes everything happening is way greater than the Author or the creator and one must stay humble and see oneself merely as a vessel that holds the potential to be anyone or do anything.
Lately I have been confronted with my own expectations and judgements about myself and to be able to see that and recognize it for what it is (ego) allowed me to reformulate what kind of Artist and Human I want to be and therefore, to let go what is weighing me down and blocking from honest, heartfull and soulful expression in my creative process.
This is the kind of art I want to do and that is where I would love to go.
Building and Framing
Creative Process
Along the years that I have observed my own process I have realized that the way I work on my art or actually anything is quite cyclical. It starts with an Idea, an image, an inspiration that sometimes comes from something I have experienced or received from the outside world through my senses or sometimes it comes in dreams. I usually let the idea hang on my mind or in a piece of paper on a Notebook for as long as it needs until I start building it up.
Part of the building process requires some research on the matter such as internet browsing, books, talks and traveling when it's possible, so I come and go between the work in progress and whatever helps me feed into it. It happens sometimes (or rather most of the times) that I let the whole subject rest for some days, weeks or months, to occupy myself on deep personal matters that the work itself brought up to the surface.
Most of the subjects or themes I use are related to the constant introspection work I do on myself through therapy, meditation and dream analysis and consequently, one process feeds into another and vice versa.
This makes me a rather slow painter, something that I had to learn to accept despite the constant impatience coming from myself that I encounter every now and then (:
The building of the canvases and frames has mostly been done by my and my husband since we have been together. I have bought some of my canvases and some others were recycled from old ones but in the last 8 years, my partner has built the base for the canvases and the outside frame for the paintings I have been making. It started very handcrafted, literally cutting the wood with a handsaw and eventually when we could afford it, we bought some machines to do better and more precise cuts, as well as a polishing machine.
I share this as part of the description of the artistic process because it is not just my work that you can see when a painting is finished, it is also the work of my partner who supports me and creates what holds and frames the painting.
