Album (I), 2006

At the centre of a square frame the image of a black pencil pointing upwards marks the point of origin of a profusion of blank sheets, also square in shape, developed on the wall, as well as of a square the same format as the sheets, outlined in pencil. Both the drawn square and the sheets begin on the canvas and continue moving outwards in illusory continuity.
The moment of contact between the pencil and the sheets is a foretaste of the birth of a hypothetical drawing, which from the space prepared inside the frame ends up, however, being dispersed all around. The work thus elevates to subject the instant that presides over its becoming, as also suggested by the title, referred to a sketchbook as a container in nuce of a work in progress.
The work is part of a series of four homonymous works made that same year, distinguished by the progressive numbering in the title and the growing number of framed elements (GPO-0939, GPO-0940, GPO-0941, GPO-0942). The same theme was formulated in a variant made during the same year, which is distinguished by the presence of a primed canvas instead of a frame (GPO-0943).