However, in recent times, his concern for attending to other types of rhythms, closer to the situations generated by nature, has been constant. The result of this interest is a series of oil paintings on sackcloth, in which the compositions and movements of the painting are lighter, less intellectual. Gilles Clément’s studies -especially in his way of understanding the garden in movement- clearly illustrate this idea of a nature that, ambiguous and random, attends to its own order:

_There is a whole series of plants that we don’t like, and not because they are not beautiful, but because they always appear where they are not expected. _

They appear and proliferate, you can’t control them. Wind, birds, dogs’ paws and nailed soles disperse them. Their status is ambiguous, linking chance to desire, and at the same time associating the laws of chance with those, more fragile, of determinism.

The foxglove is there because a passing bird has dropped a seed, but also because it is a place where it could grow, a bit as if it had always been there.

What to do, then, leave it, root it?

_They always move by surprise. They leave seeds everywhere _

__(Clément, 2012)

Virginia Murcia
April, 2023

Courtesy Alzueta Gallery