Title: Ad Mortem Tenemur
Medium: Digital Painting
This particular image has stuck with me for many years. I still consider this latest rendering a sketch, as I expect it will continue to evolve. Someday, maybe, it will find its way to oil paints on canvas. Perhaps then it will feel complete.
I have always disliked the process of making digital art while at the same time embracing it. I prefer the feel of pencil on paper and paint on canvas. I like to have a finished product I can touch. Digital work is illusory. Even when printed, it is simply a copy of what exists only in some ethereal digital plain. But here's the crux: digital tools make illustration so much easier.
I recently undertook a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem, "Der Schwan".
Espero despierto,
Y cuando la esperanza se apaga, duermo.
En los sueños busco otro anhelo
O al menos escapar.
