Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH <strong>2020</strong><br />
Ayesha L. Rubio<br />
Spain<br />
www.ayeshalrubio.com<br />
About<br />
Ayesha L. Rubio is a visual artist and writer.<br />
She works mainly in creating children’s books for the<br />
international market. Still, her Fine Arts background and her<br />
love for film and literature keep her curiosity alive to expand<br />
her creativity into different practices and fields in the artistic<br />
realm.<br />
She has a particular interest in exploring emotions, the<br />
language of the dormant mind, and the relationship between<br />
humans and nature. One of her recurrent scenarios is the<br />
woods as the symbolic space to step into subconsciousness<br />
and inner exploration where fears, dreams, and desires, are<br />
always mirrored by the wilderness’ symbolism.<br />
A window with a view<br />
It was snowing when we drove from the bus station to <strong>Arteles</strong>.<br />
As the landscape cleared from buildings and traffic lights<br />
to give space to the white planes and trees, I knew I was<br />
exactly where I needed to be. Everything that followed was<br />
an immersive journey into the unknown wilderness of the<br />
surroundings I instantly merged with.<br />
Every day I sat at my desk, and I could spend hours just<br />
looking through my window. The window I became obsessed<br />
with. The light through its uneven glass, painted the wall with<br />
brush strokes changing colors, depending on the weather:<br />
snow, sun, rain. It framed the tree in front of me, where<br />
the jackdaws perched all day long, busy with their musical<br />
chatter. Or the flight of the geese back and forth over the<br />
frozen lake. My window presented me with a landscape of<br />
silence and beauty that made me wish I could put wheels to<br />
it and just carry it with me forever.<br />
That window was the lighthouse keeping my focus on the<br />
writing process, providing a constant flow of creativity.<br />
The silent weekends and the daily meditation cleared all the<br />
noise in my head, and I felt at peace. I discovered the quiet<br />
joy the sauna ritual gave me. Carrying the logs, starting the<br />
fires, filling the water tank, feeding the hungry flames until<br />
everything was wrapped in that unique steam. The crackle of<br />
the fire, the white wilderness, and my window was everything<br />
I could ask for.