i read today on a website that you have to respect originality and educated yourself to be able to see it.
Many things influence me and many more have influenced me in the past and will in the future.
I have always point it out those names and cultures that i have felt and see become a part of my work and i have always tried to made them my own.

so far i think my attemps in creating my own language have been obvious.
maybe not succesfull but im working on that.
what i read today made me remember what i read years ago in one of my favorite books in a brilliant text about painting.


" what it does denote is the degree to wich the very essence of art has been realized: the undoing of the world of things, the construction of the world of values, and hence the constitution of a new world. the originality of this constitution provides us with a general criterion by wich we can measure intensity of figuration.

Originality of constitution is not the urge to be different from others, to produce something entirely new, it is (in the etymological sense) the grasping of the origin, the roots of both ourselves and things "

Max Raphael. ( from Revolutionary Undoing, John Berger. )

bv.

basco vazko

basco vazko

this week my girl paloma turn 23, and last night we had a party for her in the roof of my building.
most of our best friends came and it was great.
she was happy and im happy when i see her smile.







thanks ROD for taking all the photographs.

bv.

Because im painting in my house and spend most of my time here i have become the personal model of my girlfriend Paloma, i try to convince her not to take pictures of me, she knows i hate being photograph but she insist and is not like im really going to convinced her to stop.
Most of the time i look in photographs even uglier than what im really are,
and thats just the way i look in photos, nothing i can do about it
but sometimes and due just to the her remaining hope that i maight stop putting that weird face i get when im treath with a camera i come out a little bite better.

When i see a camera i freak out, one time someone so a video of me and told me i looked like a deer on the headlights... or something like that,i dont remeber well but i think is a common expression in english (maybe is spotlight..?).

I dont know what it means but im guessing is not the look you want to have on a video.







basco vazko.