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Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.94,0:00:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally, I don't do public work,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.80,0:00:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't do commissions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.07,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the library is the National Library
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was like a major project.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they approached me, but I told them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I have an idea I like, I will do it."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when the building was ready, I had a couple of ideas,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of these ideas was to have this skeleton of a whale in the center.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow, it was like an image, more than an idea.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it came to me like a very clear image
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of this floating whale in the center of the bookshelves in the library.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I am dealing with a ready-made object
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or something from reality,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to understand the logic of the object,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How it works.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I took some joints in the different centers of movement in the whale,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from those points, I start to draw circles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're like rings,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those rings intersect,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have different points in the body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, from the different centers of the skeleton,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was drawing rings expanding,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were touching in different ways,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surprising ways,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until it was really huge rings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end was a lot labor to fill it with graphite.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I like the graphite because its lead
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Has certain qualities that is not like painting on the bone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more like dust.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always liked the idea of this dark mineral
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Against the whiteness of the bone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How they contrast.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think, in my work, as a way of taking from reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then extracting something, and then revealing just one central part,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the part that I'm interested in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a kind of collage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Getting involved with that, and remaking the structure again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it still is what it is originally,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then is revealed in a different way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I know that when you do something like this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a big building like that one,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The symbolism and the mythology starts to play a factor,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And humanity has a lot of legendary tales and stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And mythologies in relation to the whale.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, normally in a building like this,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will do an eagle or something symbolic about Mexico or something like that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they love to do in the old times, you know?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think now, being more about knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also the building has an ecological side.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think that all that is in the work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without me saying anything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think for me, what is important is the translation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From real experience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then how you translate that experience into a sign,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a language, into art,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you can communicate your discoveries to other people.