Workshop
Daily Workshop.
We consider ourselves creative people, we come from families of architects and artists, and we have expressed ourselves manually since our childhood.
We have developed our skills in the academy and personally, exploring different techniques: drawing, painting, engraving, photography, silkscreen, stained glass, sculpture, basketry, seed assembly, woodcutting, woodworking, modeling and automatic cutting.
All with the intention of materializing visions of spaces and objects, perched somewhere where hopefully there is a good dialogue between what is conceived and what already exists.
This restlessness to make design, sometimes very technical, and others, in a free and spontaneous way, is just for the pleasure of making a stroke, molding some form, or represent something beautiful that we have seen, or we would like to see in some way.
We have our workshop equipped with machinery and a collection of hand tools; we try to enjoy our creative experience and the manufacturing process, whose complexity interests us, and opens fields of knowledge.
In the beginning, we proposed to make translucent doors and walls, as architectural elements, with a concept of cell or repeated unit of a stained glass art, trapped leaves, suspended seeds; the desire was to give a spatial and artistic content to a new or existing place; then we have done a series of projects of various kinds, here a small review:
Lamps, based on a triangular base shape, also thought modularly, we made some for wall, hanging and tall standing, we played with photograms of leaves made in the darkroom, stained glass, and light versions with fabric printed with handmade silkscreen that we made ourselves in the workshop.
Xylography, and sculptures from wood and seeds, either in relief of a piece of wood interpreting its grain to make an abstract composition, or three-dimensional forms of creatures such as fish, dragonflies, manta rays and anemones.
Furniture, looking for modulation and assembly without nails or screws.
Guitar bodies, we modeled in three dimensions their shape, and learned about the instrument, and how wood affects the sound.
Toys for children, to encourage imagination, such as mazes and wooden photo cameras.
A Central American breakfast set: a digital manufacturing proposal to rescue local customs, which we exhibited and published in design events.
Ceramics, utilitarian, using the potter’s wheel and learning different modeling and glaze techniques, some others modeling human form.
Drawings in charcoal, pencil, ink, oil paintings and stained glass, motifs of landscapes, animals, portraits and abstract forms.
We can conclude that the creative and artistic expressions are many, and it is difficult to choose which one interests us, attracts and motivates us to experience it, our search has always had the same line, linked to natural materials, color and composition. We hope to maintain the motivation and the ability to do so always, as it feeds the soul and somehow gives a message to those who see or use them, which we hope will always be positive and enriching.
