Cartographies of the Inner State
Series: Protocol for Not Overflowing (I–IX)
HAVANA TIMES — A series of nine drawings on 21 cm x 14 cm paper, made with ink and graphite in continuous work sessions. Each piece records a sustained span of time and functions as a variation of the same gesture: repeating in order to hold.
Repetition does not seek to decorate, but to contain. The insistent line organizes pressure, delimits excess, and turns intensity into visible form. Spirals, nuclei, fragmentations, and dense accumulations appear as responses to the same impulse: not to overflow.
The body is present in the duration of the gesture. Each drawing preserves the trace of time, breathing, and insistence. Rather than representing an emotional state, the series moves through it and materializes it.
The sequence proposes a progression that moves from the concentrated nucleus to saturation, passing through moments of adaptation and vulnerability. The work understands drawing as an intimate space of resistance, where repetition is transformed into support and silence into structure.
