I have published on my bandcamp a choral-polyphonic work I finished these days. It is titled 'Angel Fallen From Nowhere' (inspired on a prose-poem I wrote some months ago with the same title). You can listen/download it in this link:
Marian Iconography
I am working on a series of paintings about Marian Iconography. In this project I am using very simple iconographic patterns and I am proceeding in a very sketchy way since my main purpose here is not so much the artworks themselves, nor developing new visual patterns and so on, but just reading and meditating on this subject. Sometimes I like to visualize some of those reflexions, so I make these paintings quickly since they help me to internalize the concepts I'm learning, "ruminating" or mostly giving a devotional attention to. So, now and then I am posting randomly some of these visual procedures, but they are not done so much with "artistic" intentions.
‘Lady of Lilies’. 55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
‘Eve-Mary’. 55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
‘Mary’s humility as a stairway through which the divine goes down from Heaven to Earth and into flesh’. 55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
‘Mary’s Uncorrupted Womb As Marriage Chamber Of The Divine And The Human’
55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
‘Mother Of The Holy Wounds’. 55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
‘Three Headed Mary’. 55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
(Theologically speaking representing Mary as a three headed trinity is quite wrong and aberrant, but when I made this image I simply wanted to see what impressions and vibes I get while contemplating it, playing with the fact as well that it is represented on the veil with its following echoes of an "image of an image" and so on)
‘Theotokos I’. 55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
‘Annunciation’. 55X60cm. Pastels on paper.
Golden Paintings
These are some few examples of the golden paintings I made in 2014 to illustrate a prose poetry book I wrote during my stay in Portugal.
50 DRAWINGS TO MURDER MAGIC
This is a piece I’ve done with chorals and piano inspired by the drawings and texts Antonin Artaud made during the last period of his life while he was incarcerated in a mental asylum, before dying. While Artaud was there he filled several exercise notebooks (those for children schools) with texts, strange totemic images, pierced bodies and enigmatic machines. Two months before dying he made the last one and titled it ‘50 Drawings to Murder Magic’. It was the very last thing he wrote.
HUMO
This is my last album, mostly done with strings and wings instead of piano. It has just six tracks but their elaboration has served me as a meditative exercise. This album has been my way to express what's really inside me, getting rid of the noise of this world and just looking through the most essential things I've been able to go through.
I am releasing this album at the very end of 2016, which for me it is a very relevant thing. There has been absolutely nothing relevant for me in this year but inner search, music and inspiring readings. I have burned all the unnecessary things, all toxic people and all unnecessary circumstances. The outcome of all that burning is this: HUMO.
GLOSOLALIA
Glosolalia es una trilogía poética escrita en prosa, algo así como un diario imaginario que he realizado entre Enero y Mayo del 2016 donde simplemente he volcado mi manera de ver el mundo y a mí mismo. Este es un libro que publico como autor en el siguiente link para que pueda ser leído libremente (por favor no utilizar el material aquí mostrado sin mi permiso):
CORE. Piano album
I've just released on bandcamp my last album 'CORE', a 12 tracks project mostly based on piano and arranged at times with atmospheric strings. You can listen the whole album and/or download it from this link:
Ballad of the Rose
I have published in the blog I'm showing in this post my whole project 'Ballad of the Rose'. This project consists of an album with seven piano tracks and a poem with twenty illustrations.
Interior Castle
I am continuing the serie of paintings "Interior Castle". This title is homonymous of a St Teresa of Ávila's book. Another books I'm finding inspiration from are the arthurian-medieval "Perlesvaus", "Parzival" by Eschenbach, "Perceval, le Conte du Graal" by Troyes, and such. I find many bonds between the symbolism of the arthurian Grail Castle and that Interior Castle of St. Teresa. This serie of paintings is closely related with the arthurian pencil drawings I am doing at the same time ("The Holy Wound" in the former post is one of them) for they belong to the same project.
Some examples:
(CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM):
Prophecy
Some few examples from the serie of drawings "Prophecy" I made along automatic performings in 2010 while I was living in Arizona. A year later I wrote automatically as well some texts for the drawings, being in Madrid, so that the book is complete. These are just some few examples from it:
All images: Álvaro Barcala ©
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