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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: 0,0:00:30.07,0:00:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the library is the National Library
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.60,0:00:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was like a major project.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.10,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they approached me, but I told them,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I have an idea I like, I will do it."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.90,0:00:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when the building was ready, I had a couple of ideas,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.10,0:00:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of these ideas was to have this skeleton of a whale in the center.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.42,0:00:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow, it was like an image, more than an idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.12,0:00:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it came to me like a very clear image
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.32,0:01:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of this floating whale in the center of the bookshelves in the library.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.54,0:01:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I am dealing with a ready-made object
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.84,0:01:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or something from reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.20,0:01:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to understand the logic of the object,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.14,0:01:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How it works.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.74,0:01:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I took some joints in the different centers of movement of the whale,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.07,0:01:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from those points, I start to draw circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.17,0:01:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're like rings,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.55,0:01:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those rings intersect,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.75,0:01:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have different points in the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.82,0:01:39.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, from the different centers of the skeleton,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.37,0:01:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was drawing rings expanding,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.79,0:01:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were touching in different ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.84,0:01:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surprising ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.32,0:01:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until it was really huge rings.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.87,0:02:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end was a lot labor to fill it with graphite.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.16,0:02:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I like the graphite because its lead
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.92,0:02:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Has certain qualities that is not like painting on the bone,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.52,0:02:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more like dust.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.54,0:02:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always liked the idea of this dark mineral
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.65,0:02:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Against the whiteness of the bone,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.24,0:02:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How they contrast.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.10,0:02:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think, in my work, as a way of taking from reality
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.25,0:02:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then extracting something, and then revealing just one central part,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.46,0:02:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the part that I'm interested in.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.91,0:02:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a kind of collage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.45,0:02:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Getting involved with that, and remaking the structure again.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.78,0:02:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it still is what it is originally,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.48,0:02:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then is revealed in a different way.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.80,0:03:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I know that when you do something like this
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.63,0:03:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a big building like that one,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.10,0:03:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The symbolism and the mythology starts to play a factor,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.81,0:03:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And humanity has a lot of legendary tales and stories
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.80,0:03:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And mythologies in relation with the whale.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.60,0:03:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, normally in a building like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.33,0:03:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will do an eagle or something symbolic about Mexico or something like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.92,0:03:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they love to do in the old times, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.01,0:03:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think now, being more about knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.03,0:03:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also the building has an ecological side.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.38,0:03:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think that all that is in the work
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.81,0:03:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without me saying anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.40,0:03:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think for me, what is important is the translation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.81,0:04:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From real experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.20,0:04:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then how you translate that experience into a sign,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.75,0:04:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a language, into art,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.02,0:04:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you can communicate your discoveries to other people.