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Modulated Emotions

(Modulated Emotions)






Fernando Iturbide
Proyectos Ultravioleta
Guatemala City
April 29 - July 15





    
    






To explain the pictorial expression in words has always been a very difficult and inexact task, but I will try and narrate the evolutionary process of this series of works from memory.






 I had created ideal cities in the clouds, free men that flew through the sky smiling, and leaving beauty wherever they would go, all cordial, friendship and light. Then the color of the sky started to shift to lilacs, oranges and yellows, and looking downward you could see the black silhouette of the horizon, which grew and grew until it swallowed the entire sky and I found myself in a world of darkness, obscurity, emptiness and cold. It is here where this series starts:






 The first reaction was one of being scared by the unknown, given that it happened so quickly, followed by fear… but given that I have known fear from very early on, I remembered how I had overcome it before (I would concentrate en the most positive internal value that I could possibly remember at that moment I would suspend the external reality and work from within). In this opportunity, the strongest and most positive experience I managed to focus on was on the emotions and fullness without worrying, I leaped. Very soon I noticed that for every emotional experience, there was a huge screen like a giant computer with a structure of colored lines.






 If I changed the emotion the formation of the lines the colors would change simultaneously. I then decided to make an experiment. If these emotions produce a nice sensation or take me to a constructive situation or realization, I consider them positive. I revived them and noticed their formation. I then revived a negative emotion and noticed its formation, and then obviously changed what was needed to obtain the formation of the positive emotion and immediately felt the change in the internal sensation. There was a direct relation within this (lets call it, for lack of a better name) computer and internal sensation.






 I know that this is a very personal experience and might not be of any use to anyone but me, but if I am a man who craves evolving and perfecting oneself, and if I discover a technique and a discipline which allows me to eliminate my negative state of mind (which in turn only produce destructive results in my external and internal surroundings) I would have to be very selfish not to share with my species what I have discovered, as it would go against my humanity and against artists.
 Without anything else to say, I present you in this series with a pictorial fantasy, to consciously manage the emotional state and channel it to the ideal functioning of its evolutionary process.






 Sincerely,
 Nacho
 August 6th, 1980

            

            

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