“From the age of six I have had a passion for copying the form of things, and since the age of fifty I have published many drawings, but of all that I have drawn at the age of seventy there is nothing worth considering. At seventy-three I partially understood the structure of animals, birds, insects, and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall penetrate still further into their secret meaning, and at a hundred I shall perhaps have truly reached the level of the marvelous and divine. By the time I am a hundred and ten, every dot, every line will have a life of its own.”
Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist ( 1760–1849) . Author of the woodcut series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji .
The creative process is experimental, dynamic and continuous, focused on the search for and selection of the best combination, harmony and fluidity between lines, shapes and volumes. Each element has its expression and intensity in a spatial and conceptual organization, organic and interactive, in the search for movement and continuous growth, in the evolution of shapes and structures in a process that never completely stabilizes. Interdependence is fundamental between the elements. Nothing exists in isolation. They are all interconnected, forming a network of relationships where the curvature of a surface at a specific point depends on the local geometry around that point, and this curvature, in turn, influences the global shape of the surface, which defines the structure and appearance of the figure as a whole.
Jose C. Queiroz