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A Wizard Without a Shadow - 2nd session

A Wizard Without A Shadow (II) (093)

April 3, 2023

03/04/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪   This morning I went to Someone Loves You to draw and to (literally) feed my emerging tradition of long and creative breakfasts (link to CB). Last Monday I had planned to do a watercolour session, but the situation took a different turn. What changed regarding the first session is that today I shared the breakfast with Juliët, who wrote some poetry while I drew. Before Juliët arrived, I started to add some details and to define a bit more those first erratic shapes started last Monday. As a result of those early explorations, I got into details to an almost obsessive level: shadows, textures and even unexpected minutiae like some Escherian scenes. As watercolours take time and I was really enjoying this stage, I decided to leave the colouring for next week. Sharing the session with Juliët was great, the creative atmosphere was palpable and materialised in a more than comfortable silence. From Juliët’s text (a gem, by the way) perhaps will emerge some collaboration. We’ll see in the next sessions of the “creative breakfasts”. But tell me dear reader… Is it comfortable for you to share the silence?What detail of the drawing did you like the most? Have a wonderful day 🍳☕️ NFT You can collect this post as NFT using Lens, check it out 👉🏻here 👈🏻

The Secret of My Eyes © Lufo Art, 2017

The Secret of My Eyes

June 6, 2022

The Secret of My Eyes is a small painting of 12,9 x 18 centimetres made back in September 2017. I can recall few but important things about the moment in which I drew it. For example, I remember that geographically I was in Italy, more precisely in Salerno… Yet, my mind was somewhere else… Let’s try to figure out where: Nosce Te Ipsum Dolina and Borges The artwork NFT The Secret of My Eyes in progress © Lufo Art, 2017 Nosce Te Ipsum During those years a big influence marked my days: George Gurdjieff. In fact, we talk about years in which I was constantly questioning myself about the sense of being. But… being what? Being nothing, just being.  This might sound a bit of a silly game of words… Nevertheless it is a very simple yet powerful reflection that recalls very ancient teachings from different schools, and the legendary greek γνῶθι σεαυτόν, namely Nosce Te Ipsum in the Latin translation, or know thyself in English. The person who introduced me to those concepts was K., with which I used to meet very often those days… … Ok, yes, we were dating ????, but that is not the point: K. introduced me to G., E., E., and A. With them, I shared beautiful and intense days, learning about me as a human and about the human being as a part of a species.  While meeting with that group, I read the books that P. D. Ouspensky wrote about G. Gurdjieff: first, Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (AKA In Search of the Miraculous), and then The Fourth Way. These books and their teachings totally marked a stage of my life. Furthermore, they are still with me (the books) and within me (the teachings). Nowadays, I can see Gurdjieff’s teachings on The Secret of My Eyes: for example the triangle, as one of the mystic figures that I like the most, then the eye, and finally the person which is… reflected on the eye or captured within? Take a look and you tell me: The Secret of My Eyes in progress © Lufo Art, 2017 Dolina and Borges Other influences while drawing The Secret of My Eyes were Alejandro Dolina and Jorge Luís Borges.  Dolina has been a great companion not just for this painting, but also for my travels, for my sleepless nights, and in general for my life. Indeed, the flow, thoughts and reflections of his podcast La Venganza Será Terrible are there: the pleasure of the lecture (you might want to listen to this amazing chapter about it), the reference to Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra, etc. Jorge Luís Borges is also there. Indeed, we can read: I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal… which is a reference to one of his English poems. Also, there is a mention to Rafael Cansinos, who has been of great influence to Borges himself. Indeed, much probably I knew about Cansinos while listening either to Borges or to Dolina. Both Dolina and Borges were very present within those years of my life. Effectively, I used to listen to them almost every day: on the train while going to work, with my headphones during a walk coming back home, or when I was painting… View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lufo Art (@lufo.art) The Secret of My Eyes The artwork explores music, literature, surrealism, space, time… Indeed, there are the influences mentioned above but also a mention to The War of the Worlds of H.G. Welles, which I might have been listening to during one of the drawing sessions. Furthermore, the many circles, dots, lines, and colours connecting one thing with another, are also a symbolism of how those concepts where connecting the ideas and feelings that I had in my mind. Finally, at the centre of everything there is the self, the person… This tells and reminds us that humans cannot see themselves using their own eyes… So… here it is, there you have…. The Secret of My Eyes: The Secret of My Eyes © Lufo Art, 2017 NFT Last but not least, a little surprise: The Secret of My Eyes is the second item on Lufo Art NFT’s gallery. Right as Instant, this artwork aims to help the project Proof of Humanity following a scaled scheme of burning. Yet, The Secret of My Eyes has a surprise: it comes with an unlockable content… oh dear, but now… the anxiety! What could it possible be?! What do you think about The Secret of My Eyes? I read your comments! ???? Have the best day of your life! Tschüss Dr. Luquitas

NFT art gallery at OpenSea

Introducing Lufo’s NFT art gallery

April 20, 2022

Today is a wonderful day: I “inaugurated” my NFT art gallery at OpenSea by loading my first artwork on it. So, are you curious? Let me tell you how did I arrive until here. The NFT community of Proof of Humanity Since January 2022 I’m participating within the community of Proof of Humanity. This project seeks to promote a Universal Basic Income as a way of combating against poverty and inequality. To do so, the project uses cryptocurrencies, and the powerfulness of the blockchain technology running on the net of Ethereum. Within Proof of Humanity, there is a growing community of NFT artists and collectors. Their work is currently expanding to the whole metaverse, promoting artworks and collaborations that help the project. Consequently, these collaborations help to increase the value of the UBI token (the “coin” of the project). You can join or just peek the Telegram chat of the community here. How does this work? Well, basically, there is a collection at OpenSea called $UBI pyromaniac items. The artists collaborating within this collection burn the 50% of the artworks’ profit using the UBI burner. As a consequence, the burn of tokens help increasing the value of the token. POAPs Within the NFT community of Proof of Humanity, I proposed to use Instant as the background motive of a POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol). Luckily, the community took very well the idea and released the first POAP today, announcing it with this twit. These POAPs will be distributed for free to attendees of the community talks in Spanish, which hold every week on the official group of Telegram. Here is how the first POAP looks like: The first POAP for Proof of Humanity using “Instant” © Lufo Art, 2013 Instant as NFT It has been a while since I wanted to create my NFT art gallery at OpenSea. Nevertheless, even if my profile was created on November 2021 I just uploaded my first artwork today… for one reason or another I couldn’t find the time or the space do it ????????‍♂️.  Helping $UBI and Proof of Humanity was a wonderful and nice motivation to do it. However, I must confess that I also have got some help and “a push” forward from the PoH NFT community. Thanks therefore to all of them, and specially to Laura Leticia Lopez (AKA Lety) who will help with the distribution and the promotion of the NFTs.  The idea behind the POAP is to promote the NFT the artwork Instant and to sell it as part of the $UBI pyromaniac items ???? ????. Furthermore, Instant is also the first item of the collection with the concept Memories of the Humanity that I have proposed as a way of gathering artworks. I defined the concept as “an artistic point of view about our human side within the digital world, and about the digital side within the physical world“.  No more words, here the NFT goes! Lufo’s NFT art gallery With the NFT of Instant, I have no more excuses, so now you can visit my NFT art gallery at OpenSea:  I’m very very glad to have started my NFT art gallery. Indeed, I think that as a contemporary and a digital artist this is something not just necessary but almost basic within our days. Hopefully, I will add more artworks soon now that I have a “real excuse” to keep it updated. Finally, if you are interested into participating within the community of PoH, joining the project or knowing more about it, then I recommend you to do three things: First, join the official Telegram groups in English and Spanish. Second, watch these videos from Pablo who explains thoroughly well and step by step all about how to start with crypto, how to join the project and much more. Third, to take a lot of care about scammers! Do never and ever give your seed phrase or follow links that ask you to connect your wallet, and remember that no admin will ever talk you first on private messages. What do you think about NFT art, and the UBI pyromaniac collection? Leave me a comment below, I’m reading you! ???? Have the best day of your life! Tschüss Dr. Luquitas

Artwork Instant © Lufo Art, 2013

Instant, the snapshot of a dream

April 20, 2022

Instant © Lufo Art, 2013 The artwork Instant was born in 2013 as a proposal for the contest Skywards Future Artists.  According to the contest’s jury, the artwork did not match the requirements, so it was never took in consideration as a candidate. I was sure to have matched all the specifications, and ask them to clarify what was the problem about… but they never replied me back ????. Artwork’s concept With Instant I tried to made possible an impossible vision: the shadows reflected on the other side of where they are supposed to be, the hand ¿opening? ¿closing? around that… ¿building? ¿Device? that is ¿falling? ¿raising?… This artwork is the image of a dream, where everything is confusing and surrealistic, but at the same time totally possible and understandable (for who dreams it).  Instant (process) © Lufo Art, 2013 Context and curiosities When I painted Instant, I was living in a university residence at the very centre of Córdoba, Argentina. The place was simply horrible: I shared room with three more persons, the “bedroom” was very small, maybe even less than 10 m2… The kitchen was something impossible to use and I don’t want to recall the traumatising memories in the bathrooms…. I remember there was the space for two bunk beds and a tiny corridor in the middle, nothing else. To one side, there was a window from which the beautiful eyes of L used to appear for some time… To the other side of the room, there was the door to a bathroom with  double door, shared with another similar room with even more people…. … who knows, maybe when I drew Instant I was wishing just to get out of that place. René Magritte’s artwork In 2017, got such a big surprise when I visited the Musée Magritte in Bruxelles. I was walking among René’s wonderful paintings and enjoying his work when I found a poster project from 1938 that brought me back (or forward?) to 2013 and to Instant. Such a curious coincide, isn’t? Poster project for the Belgian textile workers’ union (La centrale des ouvriers textiles de Belgique) © René Magritte, 1938 What have you done with you artwork Luquitas? The original drawing finished at the hands of a person that used to do my days happier: A. I remember that I knew that she was going to pass through Córdoba’s bus main station for some and stop there before heading to her city again. When I knew it, I ran to the station to meet her, and I brought the drawing with me. Without even thinking it, I gave her the drawing, feeling that she was going to be someone who would appreciated it. I hope that I was not wrong although I never knew what was the final fate of Instant. In another occasions (after and before 2013), I drew spots from the city with A, sharing beautiful moments of expression and silence with her. I saw her a couple of years ago again, but sadly after that last meeting our connection “vanished” up to the point that we never talked again… Well, at least I have a wonderful digital version of Instant. Actually, I have used this digital version to create my very first NFT art gallery at OpenSea. Closing The artwork Instant has had many interpretations from friends and art lovers. There are no few persons that see explicit sexual components on it: a vagina, even a penis in the place of the thumb. Honestly, I am not aware of willing to include such expression but, in the end, how to be sure? Does it matter?  I know that I wanted to mix several words: the reminiscences of the Sagrada Familia that I saw for the first time two years before this painting, the vernacular architecture of the Amalfi Coast from Italy, the expression of the eyes that enjoy what the mind is creating… What do you see in Instant? Write me below, don’t be shy! ???? Have the best day of your life! Tschüss Dr. Luquitas

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