Measurements:height 136 cm, width 92 cm, thickness 3.5 cm. Technique:acrylic, gesso, charcoal, pure pigments, India ink, spray paint, crayons, pencil. Support:canvas on frame.
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on a voyage that would last almost five years. During that time, the young scientist dedicated himself to studying all kinds of plants and animals he encountered, demonstrating an extraordinary capacity for observation. The diary of this trip already contains notes that suggest the ideas that would revolutionize our vision of the world.
This work constitutes an expressionist representation of a field notebook of the unknown, worked with gesture and intuition, with a lost gaze...
The title refers to the fact that the first life forms emerged in the sea and many of those marine genes that we share with beings as simple as a jellyfish or an amoeba are still in us.
