"Painting is a matter delighted"
Apollinaire
The creative imperative Martín Ramírez drove him every day, like every morning, 1940, to join in a cautious and reserved, to go in the long dark halls of DeWitt hospital in Auburn, home of Placer County County, California.
had long been off the lights in the pavilion, there about eight o'clock at night, but the impulse transformer of genius makes it impossible to rest or respite. This is a vital force that arises either knows where, is invisible, Antonio Blay said. Energy
nascent primary force that connects us with what Easterners call prajna, in the words of the Dalai Lama: "That energy is indestructible essence of great joy, extending everywhere , like space, is the body of non-permanence ... "
case, leaving the eastern mysticism, is that Don Martín Ramírez rummaging through garbage, looking for papers, pieces of cardboard, paper ... a worthy medium to express, communicate, escape, escape ... and that act reminds me so much the last days of Odilon Redon where pleaded for the fruit of Paris for a bit of wrapping paper that testify to its powerful expression.
managed ... Once the material, (memoranda, envelopes, cards, flattened paper cups, sheets of magazines, newspapers, books ...) hit the pieces that would shape the work with a rubber or adhesive that it develops and that as this account consisted of potatoes, bread crumbs, oats ... all mixed with saliva or mucus from the author.
Obviously everything fell into his hands became worthy material, DeWitt Hospital because there were too many creative possibilities and little material contributed by him, remained on the premises of the ceramicist Marie DeShene ; responsible for the occupational area of \u200b\u200bthe hospital.
A show in the morning, without doubt, the pressing need to attend Don Martin for drawing, draw, create, establish.
Surviving the silence, the void that marks the absence of contention, confrontation, verbal speech or talk, say sa c Baudelaire, "The unpredictable become a necessity"
on materials or inks say that riding with that came the way, some watercolors, crayons, dyes of shoes and some fruit juice extracted from conclusion ... all in an oily paste which added oats.
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brushes, because the imaginatively drawn up, amazingly transforming the used matchsticks.
Given the large size of his work, working directly on the floor, squatting, in the usual position to take the Mexican country people while chatting or simply throw a cigarette. From time to time and to appreciate his work in distant perspective, he climbed on a table and from there watched the progress of work.
During the day we heard that was made a shelter under tables to flee or operator must maintain a space away their neighbors and delusional companions.
The originality of his technique, his brutal and mysterious production capacity of all that surrounded the case attracted the interest of the hospital staff. Doctors and nurses had lunch in the pavilion with the sole intention of being able to watch him work.
The fame of Don Martín Ramírez crossing the border from hospital, the news of the mysterious mute painter came to the teachers and students of the University of the Arts in Sacramento. And many artists were impressed by the spectacle that Ramirez offered, by the way pasted their drawings, their limited materials, the climate of insanity enveloping reality, everything around him, the concert offered an insane creative anonymous, a resident of a no man's land.
inhabited world In which Don Martín Ramírez? Whither had their tunnels?
A border?
Yes, but ...
Towards where?
ended today with words of Antonio Blay:
Energy to maintain contact with the SER forever ... "
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