It is not just what you see, but what you feel seeing it – Cristina's Story
I first glanced at “Shaping the Mist #2” at Carolina’s studio before selecting it for an exhibition in Paris, where five Portuguese artists would be featured. Throughout the exhibition, I would stop and glance at it very often, as if it already belonged in my idyllic home.
Living with this artwork is like inhabiting a space of perpetuity and movement. This diptych in soft pastel and charcoal, with blue and white mingling with earth tones, the warmth mingling with the cold breath, sky and earth, the ethereal and the grounded.
In the series “Dreamscapes”, Carolina questions the limits of our spatial understanding. In my daily life, I grab my morning matcha or filtered coffee and catch this painting in my peripheral vision, appearing different every morning than it did the evening before. I see the mist that doesn’t settle. A mist that does not settle but that somehow brings familiarity. It’s an artwork where patience is taught and where one can get comfortable with ambiguity, as we get comfortable with a foggy morning.
“Shaping the Mist” makes my living room feel lived in and inhabited, leaving room for meditation and for change in one’s mind. It is not just what you see but what you feel when seeing it – a matter of perception.
