Letter from New York

New York 1st Oct. 1987 After an academic start at the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, the most European city in Latin America, the destiny led me to travel through the South American continent, first arriving in Bolivia crossing Lake Titicaca to Peru, getting to know Cusco and Machu Picchu, where I reencountered images that the critique in Argentina was beginning to point out in my work, as an art with American Indigene roots. The images of our continent, incorporating the horizontal Pampa, the landscape by excellence Patagonian, adding to the different contemporary influences that came from Europe and North America, were the characteristics that accompanied my work during several years. Later installed in Paris for 6 years to realize my european experience I worked and exhibited until I felt that in Europe one could learn a lot, but undoubtedly was the past unlike America where from Patagonia to the Canada energy belongs to present time and looks to the future. All this energy has the vital center in New York, where I have been living for the last four years, continuing my pilgrimage across the continent. I believe that the American Earth emits the creative energy of our time. I feel the painting as expansions of own and universal consciences, visual manifestations of transmutation of energy throughout the internal processes, of which we are not aware, until we visualize the consummate work. Pérez Celis