If someone asked me what my essential impulse is when using a camera – and specifically a macro lens – I would say it is a way to see more deeply, to visualize, without premeditation, my own inner state. To discover the effects of feeling and thinking associated with a deep need to go beyond what the human eye naturally allows.

Our vision is limited. It has an established radius of perception, according to our constitution.

But now it is known and scientifically proven, that there are other realities, beings and planes of existence that are close yet invisible, and that subtle veils separate us (and unite us) to lives that cohabit this rich universe.

When I begin a creative process, I focus my attention on the image I am creating with elements of light and pure colour, with solar reflections and everything that allows me to enter into a meditative state. A different space, one that is magical and full of messages and dynamic forms that indicate to me that there is much to discover in the beauty of lives close to us and inaccessible to the naked eye.

The same thing happens with a paintbrush and pigments.

The colour leads me to the image. I would say that my hand follows an inner impulse that’s not only rational but also unplanned. I just try to be true to that impulse…

The future of the artist is marked by a unique and powerful path, one that leads to Intuition. Up until now the culture of each age has gone through various phases, in alignment with an evolutionary growth.

Intuition (in my opinion) is the key, the door and bridge to achieve – with a new awareness – other ways of creating.

In ancient times the arts were sacred because different links of consciousness – more in touch with the subtle and spiritual – were experienced, that now seem distant or part of an alien reality.

But in humans there is a reserve, independent of time and space, that is discovered or activated through Memory, which keeps us tied to that thread that leads us to our centre, where you can discover that we are all part of one Unit.

Thousands of stories, all kinds of feelings, thoughts of all nuances, all rapidly spinning in an immense and beautiful space called Earth, while time consumes forms: but where do the essences go?

Where do all the rivers, mountain waters and streams go? Surely they do not disappear, they are transformed…

Perhaps if we were more attuned to the mystery of nature – as those traditions of the past were, for which the arts were wisdom – we could also today try to create an art that touches that centre. Then we could activate it for a new phase, thanks to a deep memory with strong roots but also ascending winds that blow towards the most luminous aspect of each one of us.

Certainly that state of grace could only be achieved through an elevated and mature conscience and a pure heart. There is no other possibility than to ascend. That is the next phase.

It is as if someone were waiting to offer us a different key – in harmony with future generations – to new artistic elements that will introduce us to a part of ourselves that is unexplored, always present, but still unawakened and barely hinted at.

In my opinion, in general, pictorial art is going through a period of fruitless searching, sometimes arid because of a cultural disconnection with high values that should be the future goal.

The pragmatic mind has created a desolate landscape, where it is very difficult to create spaces in which a sensitive artist can have the calmness and balance necessary to perceive that other half of the sphere, one of a world that is close but not yet visible.

There is a vast universe of possibilities and potential to develop in the path of the artist of the future.

To create something alive and latent that touches the heart with its beauty, and amplifies with its vibration that contact with the human being which observes and listens. That is a possibility for the near future.

Wassily Kandinsky has left us a legacy for the artist of the future in his book ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’. His wise reflections still resonate like a bell in the mountains…

Those words are of great inspiration to many and will be understood even more by young people who aspire to a real and alive art.

As artists or creators we have the ability to penetrate this wonderful legacy, and starting from a more intense perception of those messages, explore our small universe to find a new connection and hence be able to express ourselves with our own language.

Marga Baigorria

'Fugue' by Wassily Kandinsky [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Fugue – Wassily Kandinsky [Public domain]

To harmonize the whole is the task of art

-Wassily Kandinsky

…The spiritual life, to which art belongs and of which she is one of the mightiest elements, is a complicated but definite and easily definable movement forwards and upwards. This movement is the movement of experience. It may take different forms, but it holds at its core the same inner thought and purpose.

…When religion, science and morality are shaken … and when the outer supports threaten to fall, man turns his gaze from the external to the deeper essence within him. Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt. They reflect the dark picture of the present time and show the importance of what at first was only a little point of light noticed by few and for the great majority non-existent. Perhaps they even grow dark in their turn, but on the other hand they turn away from the soulless life of the present towards those substances and ideas which give free scope to the non-material strivings of the soul.

…Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

-Wassily Kandinsky - Concerning the Spiritual in Art