Totem 1 & Totem 2

"totem 1" and "totem 2" are two sculptures that bear within them deliberatly paradoxical questions. For originally totems are the central images geographically and symbolically in "primitive" cultures, they are normally made from materials derived from the natural world and deliver the questions of the spirit that relates to it.
An opposition is established between these two profoundly different vectors of matter: the logs, natural and deliberatly acquired from it's place of birth by imposing a stronger matter modifying it by a cut; and the metal shelves, designed to be aseptic and to receive objects that bear meaning instead of producing a narrative by itself. When these are put together, the logs over the shelves, it is invitable to question if that is in fact or if it is the shelves that are under the logs. It is a questioning of the tangibility and our apprehension of things. They become oposed and constructing a strong visual and symbolic discussion.

The same process occurs in "Totem2". In these works some questions about sculpture itself are delivered, for the base, what receives the work, the object over wich the mental 'action' happens, does not configure itself as a base: it is itself integral within the work. The entire dilema/work does not have a traditional base, for the work is the dilema, and the dilema is directly rooted in the experienceable world: the base is the ground.