Isabel Cavenecia

Whenever I feel bad I take a long bath. I painted the walls of my bathroom with hearts, and there are soft lights and candles placed within. Inside this bath, I feel the water helps me to calm down. I have always had this immense love for water. Being in water and also drinking water. The water allows me to flow into a mental world, where everything is weightless and flowing, sometimes calm and sometimes wild. Here, I can close my eyes and let the water take care of everything. In the past I have been acting more like an architect of water. I created spaces in the computer that are flowing on water or in air. For some time now I’ve started applying a more subconscious approach to my water worlds. I fill an empty paper with graphite and I look at the shapes that emerge in the clouds of graphite. It’s kind of like a Rorschach test. Then, I start to erase the contours of the shapes that appear to me, until eventually I am left with an image. During this process, I make a lot of mistakes and I keep erasing and adding until I find an image that makes sense to me, and gives me a certain sense of tranquility and wonder.