Ana Crespo

Colours, forms, stories, poetry, resonance awakened by descriptions of states attained by mystics and inner cosmoses, narrated so as to expand the listener’s universe, have all nourished my work. There is such joy, subtlety, finesse and delicate delight in Islamic poetry that being in contact with it my imagination has become more receptive, more loving, sensual and precise. Images that appear in my mind are coupled with aromas, penetrating flavours that lead me to apprehend new forms.
 

I conceive a work as if it were a precision tool (ductile and flexible), a sort of energetic field, a sacred space where symbolic quality and the evocative power of material, colour, form and proportion are put in play to induce resonances. Attempting, with this visual refinement, to attract, as if a magnet, the subtlest aspects of the conscience mind. There is a reference within this to the theory of the subtle spiritual centres or Lataif (Simnani, Lahiya, Kubra…), suggesting the ability art has to enlarge the most delicate and lucid dimension of the conscious mind.

By means of a subtle, sensually calibrated game, I evoke a delicate image in the spectator, warm and stimulating approximation. I try to get the information over in a subtle way, in such a way that content is intense.
I visually connect different spatial levels of light and shadow achieving vibrancy. Applying translucent paper the work is “alive”, it transforms throughout the day, as light changes. This versatility and depth of planes is also present in Sufism and the Arabic language.