JOSUÉ RAMÍREZ
Stony Presences
To discover in the veins of marble, quartzite, onyx, the dampness, the clouds, among the foliage a face, a figure, leads to sensing a gaze that upon seeing us prompts another look, a return to being, an approach of a presence, making present a predestined absence, sensed, animated by the line that reveals its continuity, its gesture, its sensitive soft image over the hard surface of a cut that time carves, is the memory that suggested figure, is the time that makes of the image the humanized presence of the stone is the hand that cinches it to a drawing already present, already initiated by nature that finds in the human its creature, that Peñalta discovers himself discovered and goes after the stroke, with attentive pulse, as if the graphite were a scalpel that far from cutting, opening, penetrating, manages to seal, give shape to what is already there, not petrified by Medusa but wanting to take its visible form, sensed, like an absence that materializes gradually, in the mirror of the stone, uniting by the line the points that ask to be united, discovered, because beauty is like that when it appears and once discovered it seems logical to us, so clear and it is desire, uncovered gaze, gaze for an image that leads to another and another disposed by time, in the bowels of the Earth, and it is, continuity: seeing what the other will see and is hidden: the wave against the cliff that goes drilling rocks and makes of sculpture the performance of sensitive touch and for a moment suggests to us that stones feel.