I use mediums that are traditionally associated with painting or with photography, but I try to bring it to my universe and translate it into drawing. Everything starts with a drawing normally. It's not like digital photography, or it's not like film photography. You cannot touch what you've done, and you also have to wait a little bit to get the result. Even when I use a Polaroid, for me, it's like a super fast sketch that I'm doing because Polaroid is instant. I think it's very fluid, but drawing even when I don't use paper is still drawing. You’re really into drawing and the idea of mark making, and I’m curious about how over time, do you still view drawing to be a very central part of your practice or has it moved more into sculpture-or is it all very fluid? Being in some place, in that time, and being surrounded by what I am surrounded with in that precise moment… it's really, really important for me. I think of that statement-I always look at it and I say, maybe I should write something new, but no, it's what really influences me as an artist and myself as a person. It's super important, the place where you are in that time, in that moment in time. Another time that I went to very old cities! And that really influenced me as an artist, looking at each capsule of time and each capsule of a city, of the places that we inhabit-it shapes the way that we are building our identity and also growing up and socializing with others. When I was studying at university, I also studied abroad-I went two years to study in Italy. I was very lucky in that part of my life that every summer break we were going somewhere new. I was born in Lisbon I lived all my life in Lisbon, and then I traveled a lot with my parents. It really influenced my way as an artist. I think it's a thing that happens to us that we live in these cities filled with memories: in each corner, you have a scratch on a wall or an old stone or something like that. Do you want to elaborate on that-what that means to you?Īna Velez: I think that it all started because I have always lived in very old cities. Kate Mothes: I’m curious about your statement where you mention the ideas of identity, with memory and place as a kind of combination that makes up identity, but also that you view place as a container for memory.
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