Elita Arnaez

Since I was a girl I started with my grandfather's Minolta srt101 camera, then I helped my grandmother Elita with her crafts and then I started my artistic studies in the Artist's house, I found various ways to express myself and participate in artistic fields, leaving comfortable comfort zones where I found paths that ranged from drawing, sculpture, engraving, dance to conceptual performances in which I never thought I would participate. All this because of this constant desire for exploration.

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What I currently do mostly is freelance graphic design work and creative solutions for ventures, from time to time I continue with my woodcut and analogue photography that I love so much. 

 

My works come from these desires to capture things that tell stories that can be identified or that speak about our realities, with  I make the matrices for the engravings from recycled wood and print them on traditional rice paper, all of this in my home.

 

The reason why I do this is that feeling of always wanting to explore different techniques, such as sculpture, engraving and photography that in most of these cases some artifact or tool is always necessary, honestly I never identified much with painting, I don't have the patience to create a painting, although in my time as an artist I have made several murals in lemon, in my own house and the occasional pastel chalk because I like to use my hands. 

I know how to restore paintings with various pigments and sculptures but I never had the gift of painting, to this day I still try to like it, I like to cut the wood with my gouges, see little by little the image that is captured in the bark , the excitement that I get after printing it, restoring sculptures, seeing how little by little I am giving a broken image its shape and renewing its color.

 

In my house I have made several of my furniture with pallets and other recycled things, I am one of those who likes to try to fix things before buying a new one, I have the dream of being able to give old broken and beautiful things a second chance like this just like theKintsugi.

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