Hinge Work — Acrylic on canvas — 116 x 88.5 cm — 2024
A Family Matter marks the first perceptible shift in my pictorical language — a hinge between visible code and embedded matter.
Conceived in Janyary 2024, A Family Matter emerged from a still-intact intergenational structure. Months later, that structure changed irrevocably. What had been painted as presence became a threshold
The work explores intergenerational memory through the Vapensiero alphabet in which initials, dates, and places are embedded within a restrained chromatic field.
Here, the Vapensiero alphabet remains legible — but matter begins to absorb it. In subsequent workd, this absortion becomes complete.
This enlarged detail reveals fragments of the Vapensiero alphabet embedded in the surface.
Initials and dates operate as structural coordinates within the composition.
“JME” refers to José María Eusebio (Valladolid, 1933), her maternal grandfather.