“My starting point for the intervention and painting of the dress was a recent visit to Gaudí’s La Pedrera in January 2024, where I was absolutely captivated by the building, but especially by its two portals, which have been my inspiration. The natural and fresh atmosphere they create is just marvelous. It’s as if you were entering a kind of magical garden or cave, surrounded by all those colors on the walls and ceiling, and the door resembling the wings of a butterfly. I could still remember that feeling while painting the dress. 

Normally, in my work I don’t begin with images or sketches, but rather from sensations, memories or a kind of poetic atmosphere that I try to recreate visually. I always work starting from scratch, improvising and experimenting in a very impulsive process that includes breaks and periods of inactivity and observation of what I am painting, continuing with the construction and destruction of what I have painted, which is extended over time until I finally decide that it is finished and then I stop.