Atanasio

Esta  planta, o parte  de ella  es  espectral, nadie  la  ha podido  tocar,   nunca  se  le  ve   sola,  siempre   en grupo,   lo que sugiere  la siguiente  hipótesis:    "si  Ambrosia  existe  solo es una , la que nunca  muere  y nunca  nace,  las  demás  solo  son  su  reflejo  y están  para su protección   desviando   la  atención  de  la  flor  originaria". En los campos de  Ambrosia   todo es simétrico  y  espectral   , parece mas bien un valle de espejos .  las plantas de la periferia   son   pálidas   y transparentes, mientras  las  del  centro  son  violentamente   azules  o rojas , cuando  uno trata   de  acercarse   al centro  pa...

The following is a text written by Claudio for the presentation of one of his latest projects at the University of Concepción, Chile. translated by :devstigmatattoo:The project "My name is Legion" spawns from the conjunction of two situations: one is the invitation from Andrés Durán and Pedro Fernández for exploring the creative possibilities of a torque game engine, which is a software designed for generating inmersion game enviroments with the capacity for being a territory engine, delivering geographic, luminic, tophographic and climatologic information, among other features. Which is to say, every element of a geographic enviroment.The...

The new pieces belong to two book projects Claudio has been working on: a fictitious herbarium consisting of 10 fantastic plants and their descriptions as told by the expedition that discovered them ( The Album of Imprudent Flora ), and a catalog of 30 imaginary beasts. Most pieces have been digitally edited, adding textures and colors. Still i think their spirit lays closer to the drawings that originated them (skillfully penciled and inked as to resemble lithographies), which is why they are tagged as Traditional / Drawings. u p d a t e: The following is a text from The Album of Imprudent Flora written by Claudio and translated by :de...