Images of Carcassonne

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 190 x 130 cm

Year: 2007

It is a pictorial version of a musical work of my authorship, written for violin.

Both works recreate the experiences and states of mind that I went through while within the walls of the medieval city of Carcassonne, France, in July 1997.

At that time I wrote the sensations I felt, and these words give an idea of the subjective world that I try to capture both in the musical work and its equivalent in painting.

“… The atmosphere envelops me, transports me beyond the lash of the present. The walls tell the story of their lives ... and their deaths.

Far away, the spirits that once inhabited this site, sing a soft melody that is installed in my memory, and the clear, ethereal, weightless and subtle image of a woman nests inside me, recording her soft voice on the walls of the temple of my soul.

Yellow-ocher and white mushrooms sink into the infinite hollows of the rock.

A dog barks. I hear footsteps. And my sky is going, perhaps nowhere, perhaps it hides, already asleep, in my retina, like that dove that huddles in one of the columns of the nearby church.

The sky has reddened, and a shutter snaps shut on one of the towers. The night is announced, between a macabre past and a future, certainly uncertain.

Crickets and birds. Neon lights illuminating the medieval ceilings. Noises of cars and motorcycles mixing with horse hooves. Children who run and laugh between the walls that protect the past. Doors that closed stories weave the threads of an unfinished age.

At night, fast bats, showing off their speed, do pirouettes at my side.

The colors of the times merge, like the colors of a sky at sunset, a sky that vanishes in my memory, absences warm me, my sighs cool.

 … And there God continues, as an eternal witness, who treasures all that time has taken. "