To know oneself, the beging of everything

Introspection

Oil on canvas with two labradorites. 
 
Each one has a positive side, and a darker one.

The other side

Only rendering unto Caesar, the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s, it is possible to love thy neighbour as thyself.

Religion and the State

Reality becomes without colours. It is just white and black …more black than white …

Fundamentalism

Temptations

Oil on canvas with a metalized plant structur

Life structures

As science progresses, smaller “worlds” and more distant galaxies are discovered. Worlds where the notion of time and space is necessarily different.

BETWEEN THE INCREDIBLY SMALL AND THE INFINITIVELY BIG

Oil on Canvas, with a quartz aqua aura gem, a chalcedony and a shell. 
 
The beginning...

LIFE SOURCE

Oil on canvas, with two quartz geodes 
 
Movement transforms reality.

Nascita I

Oil on canvas, with an opal 
 
Movement transforms reality.

Nascita II

As in Nature, in the more intense madness, a new order is created.

Creation

Evolution

Oil on canvas with snail fossil. 
 
Geometry emerges from life, formatting it.

Life geometry

Environmental and social sustainability is an issue of survival

Lack of sustainability

At the XXI century wars have impact in environmental changes. They are more catastrophic

War and Peace at XXI century

Oil on canvas, with two tiger eye quartz, one polished and the other not polished 
 
Transforming nature

Tiger Eye

Oil on canvas, with burned leaves 
 
It is possible to destroy in seconds what took generations to build.

Forest in flames

VALUES AS MERE ABSTRACTIONS ARE SELF-DESTRUCTIBLE EMPTY CONCEPTS 
 
Sometimes people's beliefs are constructed appealing more to emotion than to reason, In time emotion disappear and also the belief.

Values I

VALUES REVEAL THEMSELVES STEP BY STEP ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS 
 
Values such as justice and liberty are not set in a complete and perfect way. Only in a case by case basis, giving the correct answer to each problem, will man gradually understand the values true dimension.

Values II

Oil on canvas, with two malachites, one cornelian and one green calcite 
 
Liberty is for all. It has to be like a fire which flames do not reduce everything to ashes.

Liberty

Oil on canvas, with quartz geode 
 
According to Plato, Justice is an Idea and Man only knows its shadow. Often this concept is more real than it seems.

Justice

Oil on canvas with an eye of a tiger quartz, an amethyst, two ulexites and artificial light. 
 
The recognition of natural law, is a process of returning to basics,

Nomos

Oil on canvas, with a pyrite 
 
Believing that the same cause always has the same effect, annihilates guilt. There is no freedom and no accountability for one’s action. It is the fool’s gold.

GUILT: THE CAUSE WITHOUT EFFECT AT DETERMINISM

ICH BIN EIN BERLINER

Oil on canvas and coral 
 
European identity is a hope based on culture and values.

EUROPEAN IDENTITY

BUILDING THE EURO

Recession

2011 - Europe before ECB intervention- First Euro crisis - one currency, different and separated economies without cohesion mechanisms.

ATTACK TO SOVEREIGN DEBTS

Social Cohesion implies that those who have more contribute more for the wellfare of others and the poorest have the opportunity to improve their lives

SOCIAL COHESION

Oil on canvas with a quartz geoda and 2 agatas 
 
Societies are not homogeneous, and have minorities The destiny of minorities depends on the existing tolerance. The more tolerance the more colour.

Minorities

Oil on canvas with 5 agatas, 1 citrus stone and a fluorite. 
 
In history, people of every race have moved to get better life conditions. These movements facilitate the contact, fusion and birth of different cultures.

Migrations

Oil on canvas, with two sienite rocks. 
 
Monchique is a village at the top of continental Europe extreme southwest. The village is known by its’ natural resources: Syenite rock and medicinal waters. The work represents the two moments that emanate all natural beauty and magic of the place – the sunrise and sunset. Human’s presence is represented by the church’s portico.

Monchique

Oil on canvas with a chalcedony and an amazonite stone. 
 
Lisbon, a feminin light.

Lisbon environment and culture

Oil on canvas, with an Unakite rock, an Obsidian Snowflake, a smoked quartz geode, 2 chalcedonies (a stones and fragments) and a carnelian stone. 
 
Azores - Nature wildness in the Atlantic Ocean.

Azores

Povoa do Varzim

Oil on canvas, with two unakite stones, two smoked quartz geodes, one smoked quartz gem, one citrus quartz, four chalcedonies, one feldspathoid Sodalite mineral, two whelks, one handicraft piece and a wooden sculpture. 
 
Algarve is the most southwest region of continental Europe. The painting enhances two sides of Algarve: 
a) The coast: dedicated to tourism and leisure, with com marinas, water parks, golf courses and luxury hotels; 
b) the interior: more traditional represented by 1) places known their history (Silves, Mértola and Lagos) or by its special location (Sagres and Monchique mountains); 2) its’ chimneys; 3) its plants (orange, lemon, carob, almond, arbutus, fig, cork, and holm oak trees; 4) and a wooden sculpture.

Algarve

Oil on canvas, with two artificial magnetic bornites. 
 
The uniqueness of Barcelona’s architecture and colours combination attracts crowds to the city. Barcelona is unique due to the originality of its architecture, its colours and the charisma of its club. 
The architectural originalities of private residential buildings, (such as La Pedrera, Casa Batlló and Agbar Tower), public parks (e. g. Park Güell), cultural private buildings (such as the Palace of Catalan Music) and religious monuments (the Sacred Family) is impressive. The colours are very vivid and diverse, enhancing the constructions’ innovations. Football Club of Barcelona is present everywhere in the city. Bornite is one of the most coloured minerals wearth representing Barcelona’s singularity.

Barcelona

Oil on canvas, with three marble pyramids, dry arbutus and iron handicraft 
 
The arbutus tree statue at “Puertas del Sol” viewed by a tourist. 
Madrid symbol is viewed including some features that most characterize this city: 
a) The architecture the inner decoration of its housing buildings and shops, including the beauty of iron and/or wooden doors and marbles used; 
b) bullring and “Plaza Mayor” decoration; 
c) Inhabitant’s empathy; 
d) Huge green parks as the “Retiro”; 
e) Royal Palace; 
f) Football clubs; and 
h) museums.

Madrid

Oil on canvas with Sahara Desert sand 
 
The geometry of the people from the desert.

Alambra

Oil on canvas with a milk quartz stone, a citrus stone, a calcedony and yellow marble 
 
Fashion, art. history, emblematic places the seine and its bridges, french revolution values are all represented in the Painting

Paris

Oil on canvas with mirrors 
 
The harmony between the ancient and contemporary buildings.

The City at London

S. Marcos Plaza visited through morano glace.

S. MARCOS IN MURANO

Oil on canvas with 19 shells 
 
City of canals where ancient and new architecture impresses.

Hamburg

Oil on canvas with a monoclinic gypsum trapeze and green calcite one, a citrus mineral, amber, one chalcedony and two clear transparent quartzes. 
 
Man discovers himself by understanding the others. The five senses are directly or undirectly crucial to this understanding, This understanding is a step by step construction.

Understanding Oneself and the Other

Each person sees reality in accordance with his experience and perception. This means that the same facts may be have different meanings from person to person.

Subjectivity

Tranquility

Hope

Oil on canvas, with a Selenite Desert Rose 
 
The power to build even in the most extreme adversity.

EVEN THE DESERT HAS FLOWERS

Missing

Whenever the lines get together, the colours are complementary. The primaries in one side, do not exist on the other. There is no relationship.

Mismatches

The characters. 
“Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo, is developed in 2 environments. The first one is the world of darkness, ruled by poverty, theft, prostitution, exploitation, deception and prejudice. On the second environment values and economic misery are replaced for a fight to change predominant values by rich young men who die without achieving their goals. At the epilogue love is the key to salvation.

Miserables

There is passion in darkness and passion in light. At the end love prevails.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Oil on canvas with a handicraft violin 
 
Painting Vivaldi melody

THE 4 SEASONS

Oil on canvas and 3 citrus stones and 2 colourless transparent quartz 
 
Wagner's ride

VALKYRIES' RIDE

Oil on canvas with two amethyst stones. 
 
Ballet - the beauty of music and movement

Nutcracker

Passion and society values not always are compatible.

ANNA KARENINA

Saramago

Mission
# Structuring Themes
# Sustainability
# Discover oneself and the other

Thoughts