Between my body and earth there was always a deep identity, either as small forests of parsley in the kitchen garden to the masses of oceanic fury over the cliffs, where I was raised. My work is an appropriation of the surrounding matter re-created in two levels : the macrocosm of the sublime immensities and the microcosm of the infinite small, both manifested in the format used and the subject focused.
It is nature re-created to our image and similitude and we inside it, a polarizer of our aesthetical feelings. If I imagine the revelations of matter, soon a myriad of sensations would invade my being. Sensations I lived from my first gesture, sensations I reflected over life meaning and existence, memories, now in creation present tense, as a conscience of forms identity and body action.
Painting consists in, feeling the strokes and the colour materials as an initiation to a high level of conscience, not an expression of territoriality and futile communication. The conceptual realms involved in the act of painting and seeing are digested through practical work and thorough investigation.
I believe that the work of art has no time, therefore no space. It runs in the time-space of our historic conscience. The no-time of creative actions, where we find the signs and build the meanings.

Julio J. Fernandes da Silva, 2023