Fashion design was my first contact with the creative world. When I was inside, I understood that I had to enhance my individuality and that individuality could only exist by working alone. When I was studying fashion, I started to draw figurines. Those drawings began to attract attention and I started to receive commissions as an illustrator even though I was a fashion designer. I usually say that illustration came to me, and almost unintentionally, I started to work on it. There I saw that I only needed my own creativity and my mind, I didn't need big investments of money. And illustration gave way to art. So, fashion design was like the first door that allowed me to discover that creativity. Once inside, as I said, came the drawing, and from the drawing came the personal work.

Before, what I used to do was just take an A4 and start sketching. Very small sketches... About a year and a half ago, more or less, I changed part of the process, and I started using notebooks with slightly thicker paper, very pleasant to the touch.
So, what has changed after using these notebooks is that now I pay more attention to the sketches I make. I have noticed how the sketches have improved because I pay much more attention to them since the paper is limited and encapsulated in a notebook. I begin with the sketches in these notebooks and then I measure them, maybe I change some of the proportions. It's something I study a lot, the proportions in my work. If I consider that the sketch and then the study of the proportions show that the work has something, then I transfer it to the canvas or the paper, depending on the circumstances. What is never missing is the first step in which I make sketches on paper.
The creative moment is in that part of the sketch, I think it is the most important (creative) part. However, it is true that later, when I transfer it to the canvas, there are more spontaneous things that happen at the moment of production.
In the process of cleaning up works, sometimes very interesting backgrounds and works are created. I really like to play with accidents and mistakes.

My work is mainly focused on the exploration of line and contour, creating a very large synthesis of complex figures, and bringing them to the minimum expression. This line (the one on the KALEOS artwork) is born from a spontaneous drawing that I generated with charcoal. And then I can reproduce it in other ways with acrylics or even with charcoal on canvas. But it is always born from the gesture that I work with charcoal in my notebooks. 

This studio was like an old bookstore, an old book warehouse of a person who had thousands of books and used this space as storage. I found it in different rooms, and I came in with a hammer in hand and tore it all apart. I created an open space where I could develop as an artist.
This place makes me immensely happy every day when I walk in the door. I smile somehow, if not consciously, then unconsciously, because I know that this space is where I fly, it is where everything is born. If there is one thing I love in life in general, it's to create and this is where I get to do this, what I love the most. So my studio is my favorite place.
But I think the next step as an artist is to have a bigger space that will allow me to fly even further.

For KALEOS I had in mind to focus on the glance, since it is what you wear or take care of with your glasses.
On the other hand, in my work, there is a lot of influence from the primitive. So, I considered that it didn't make much sense for the artwork itself to have a pair of frames. But I did want to show a figure that looked directly at the viewer in a conscious way.
It seemed interesting to me to do it subtly, but also very direct, relating it to what KALEOS is dedicated to.