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366 vertical insights in the private life of RGF for a better understanding of his work by the 'accidental navigator'. This project will be made with one year + a day of images and texts.

HORIZONTAL INSIGHTS 2001-02

 
01 - 05 - 03: MADRID: WHAT DID I BUY IN... What did I buy in the Eolian Islands? well... nothing, but in the pumice stone mines in Lípari, I found wonderful obsidiana pieces to give as a present.
02 - 05 - 03: MADRID: VISIT.  Diana H. (the other day): 'Today I have entered into that magic world and today, because of that, I felt happy. '
03 - 05 - 03: MADRID. Indeed, I don't have the slightest intention of going to see the Pope and to get lost among the millions of new saints' followers...
04 - 05 - 03: MADRID: EVERY DAY. In the morning I refill the water bottle  (the one that I am painting in the work 'Emptiness')
05 - 05 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. Nobody told to the 'dark ' swallow that a smoke exit hole is not a place for hanging a nest. The mistakes (although involuntary) have to be paid. 
06 - 05 - 03: MADRID: EVERY DAY.  At night, habit (watching TV with León)
07 - 05 - 03: MADRID: CRUISING CORNER. Calle Princesa - Plaza de España. On a rainy day (going to buy a new laptop)
08 - 05 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. Totó, Cocó & Vene still impressed with the fireworks... in the new laptop. (Stability or immobility in their state of well-being?)
09 - 05 - 03: MADRID: MUSIC. The painting I'm working on ('Emptiness' from the Signs of Extintion series)  has -among others- the music by Leó Ferré that Melissa gave me.
10 - 05 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... LA CORUÑA. It has taken me 45  years (at least) to climb again the Hercules' tower...
11 - 05 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... LA CORUÑA. No, it was not Arriaza Island amid a Galician field. It was the house of P. Reboredo's father.
12 - 05 - 03: MADRID: Although Madrid is one of the best places in the world to live in, now when the heat arrives,  I only think of going back to Edinburgh.
13 - 05 - 03: MADRID: J. Infante, (an Andalusian who doesn't like olives and is not superstitious),  presented his new book on a Tuesday 13th!!
14 - 05 - 03: MADRID: IN MEMORIAM. A painting, a scenario? I cannot come closer, I prefer to remember him as he was. In Memoriam Julio Toquero.
15 - 05 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. The invitation to Monica and Sacha's  wedding in August, arrived with a map showing where the medieval church is located... in Sweden!
16 - 05 - 03:  MADRID: THE OTHER DAY. L. Alas showed me the screen saver of his ultramodern mobile phone: my 1985’s work 'The gift of the word' where he and Agustín appear.
17 - 05 - 03: MADRID: VISIT TO. Sacha (a few days in Madrid). And what a better wedding present that his 'portrait' as a San Sebastián, DEAYM XV (1994)
18 - 05 - 03: MADRID: VISIT TO. Félix R. Among the things that he brought from his trip to Burma was an odd (and not very safe) preservative with spangles...
19 - 05 - 03:  MADRID: VISIT.  (The other day) Silvia L. (together with Manolo R. and a friend)  brought me the drawings of the exhibition 'Trazos de Galicia'... and tales and projects.
20 - 05 - 03: MADRID: VISIT. Antonio R. will also be in the ' Signs of extinction' series 
21 - 05 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. After been lost for several days, Jorge O.'s 'facsímile' finally arrived.
22 - 05 - 03:  MADRID: THIS THURSDAY EXHIBITION. In the early 70's Angel Busca and I were partners in the Madrid Fine Arts School.
23 - 05 - 03: MADRID: (BODY) DECAY. How clumsy!!
24 - 05 - 03: MADRID: (SOUL) DECAY. Three hours watching the Eurovision Song Contest  (and it was not so bad!).
25 - 05 - 03: MADRID: SUCH A WASTE OF TIME. Going to vote... and not being able to do it... because my name (I don't know why) has disappeared of the voting list!!!!
26 - 05 - 03: MADRID: VISIT TO. C. Luengo moved to his new studio three years ago ... and I haven't been in it. (Every year time seems to be shorter).
27 - 05 - 03: MADRID: CRUISING CORNER. Calle Vandergoten - Calle Andrés Torrejón. In a sunny day (on the way to the photographic laboratory)
28 - 05 - 03: MADRID: VISIT.  It was a quick visit by Diana H. to see 'her' painting (this time accompanied by Joaquín Z.)
29 - 05 - 03: MADRID: BOOK. I  finished on time the Vicente Molina Foix's (very good) book  ' The vampire of Mexico street' before going to spend summer in Edinburgh.
30 - 05 - 03: MADRID. Although the heat was oppressive, I had to go out to collect (in Fotosintesis) the enlargements of two pictures from the LLTTUSA series.
31 - 05 - 03: MADRID: VISIT TO. When I arrived to Ciuco G. studio, I realized that I was wearing my polo shirt inside out!!!