She dyed her pupil green. Conversations with my daughter. Conversations with my mother is the title of the global project that last Saturday 18 October presented the artist Ana Crespo together with her daughter, Paula Garra, in Bailén street 2 of the Madrid town of Collado Mediano. The exhibition will be open to the public until 8 November.
More than ten years ago, Ana Crespo published an important study on chromatic symbolism, entitled The Beautiful Colors of the Heart, in which she explored the metaphysics of color in Sufism, where specific colors are associated with the different levels of mystical experience and purification of the soul. For her, Sufism is “inner concentration and formal openness to the outside”.
Ana has continued to work on the symbolic dimension of words. She writes: “Green energy or vitality of the heart. Green blooming form. Sea Green and white moon or white Venus and green moon”.
These reflections on color have allowed him to open an aesthetic, artistic and philosophical dialogue through the mirror with his own daughter, Paula Garra. Paula Garra’s career is focused on collaborative proposals, as this time in which she contemplates nature through a mirror placed on her mother’s back. It is a dialogue between mother and daughter, a reflection on nature, although for them it is also about protecting and caring. Precisely the process of greening is the meeting point of this reflection.
According to a Central Asian tradition, the “Green Land” is a lucid inner dimension and the green color marks its entrance. Penetrating into that wonderful place is associated with the creative walk and figure of “The Green Man”, Jidir (word from the Arabic root of verdecer) and symbolizes the pure creative dimension inside, beyond forms. He is the eternal wanderer: The Green within.
In Tiñó su pupila de verde, the artists present a mother-daughter dialogue built through intimate visual conversations around nature. They talk with images about poetry, natural beauty and the benefits it brings to humans. Nature emerges as a living protagonist, inviting the world to grow green: a metaphor for the joy of existence and the recognition of our relationship with it. This affective and reflective exchange reminds us of our deep dependence on the earth and the need to care for it in order to maintain emotional, social and spiritual balance.
Ana Crespo, visual artist, PhD at BBAA, teacher of graphic techniques. Several of his books, of philosophy of art, are being translated into Arabic and English. Her creative and research work has been awarded internationally. One of the purposes of his artistic work has been to update the Andalusian legacy, as well as other traditions, in a contemporary work.
Paula Garra, artist, researcher, promoter and coordinator of international projects on art, nature and emotional well-being in young people, and endorsed by the European Union, finishing her doctoral thesis, with an R & D & I grant on public art and 17 international grants on the subjects it develops. Has held numerous exhibitions and received several artistic awards.
