LABORATORY OF COORDINATES

New Lands
Earthenware and slips, 1025º C
Potter: Jaime Romero
68 x 24 Ø cm
2020

Destiny counts for little
Earthenware and slips 1150ºC.
Potter: Toño Naharro
60,5 x24cm. Ø
2020

Map 113P
Collage on paper
102 x 153 cm
2020

Route Key
Collage on board 89 x 61 cm.
2020

Centro
Earthenware plate, cobalt blue under cover, 1025ºC.
3 x 35 cm. Ø
2020

Mislata
(Initial itineraries)
Earthenware plate, cobalt blue under cover, 1025ºC.
3 x 35 cm. Ø
2020

Mislata
(Initial itineraries)
Earthenware plate, cobalt blue under cover, 1025ºC.
3 x 35 cm. Ø
2020

Benimaclet
(The city limits)
Earthenware plate, cobalt blue under cover 1025 C.
3 x 35 cm. Ø
2020

The Port
(Cartography of an adolescent)
Earthenware plate, cobalt blue under cover 1025oC.
3 x 40 cm. Ø
2020

Grao
(Planometry of my childhood)
Earthenware plate, cobalt blue under cover 1025oC.
3 x 35 cm. Ø
2020

Map of a dream
Clay, slips and mettalic glazes
3 x 32,5 cm. Ø
Potter: Arturo Mora
2020

Milwaukee route 2
Pencil on Bristol Strathmore 270 grs. paper
22 x 29 cm.
2020

Milwaukee route 4
Pencil on Bristol Strathmore 270 grs. paper
22 x 29 cm.
2020

Line 1
Pencil on Bristol Strathmore 270 grs. paper
32 x 29 cm.
2020

The hamlet
Earthenware and slips 1025C.
33,5 x 29,9 x 2,4 cm.
2020

The unfinished route 
Earthenware and slips 1025 C.
36 x 25 x 2,7 cm.
2020

Downtown way
Earthenware and slips 1025 C.
42 x 23 x 2,7 cm.
2020

The fragmented dream
Earthenware and slips 1025C.
36,8 x 29 x 2,8 cm.
2020

Laboratory of coordinates

“When the air is homogeneous and almost rigid and the things it surrounds are not intermingled, the landscape is not a state of soul but a coordinate system.”

Jorge Cuesta

Considering a new project is like walking through an unknown territory, you trace a course on an abstract map in which you configure a network of emotions, images and footprints, but at the same time you sketch possible routes to travel. Perhaps if you walk without a compass, getting carried away by the luminous points of certain beacons, you may be able to correctly align all the outlined points to perhaps not and only imprints will remain on a more complex map.

The history of cartography is similar to walking through an unknown territory; at each step the lines of the territory through which you travel are laid out, this way an image of the geography traversed and in a certain sense of the time lived is created.

Laboratory of coordinates is a compilation of places traveled in time and mentally wandered spaces, memories of itineraries toured and recognized, imprints of memories. Possibly it is only a beginning, thus I define it as a laboratory where I try to sort the coordinates of the past and the present.

During this journey, some pieces are imaginary itineraries, paths over cities that the unconscious has created with no pretense but to wander mentally.

Xavier Monsalvatje