It is just a stain [1], just a found frame, just a dirty wood forgotten in a corner of the workshop; and maybe it looks like a landscape, or perhaps the image of a sky, or simply an abstraction [2] -without anyone knowing exactly what abstraction is, beyond something without context, and which can therefore be placed at any time and place, so it is neither a story nor a history.... So... perhaps it is a work of art, an object made by an artist with the habits of an artist who can no longer get out of his role of making objects whose usefulness is to be looked at.

Rosendo Cid

March 2025

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[1] Stain: verb. To leave a mark on something that is difficult to remove.

Synonyms: mark, smear, smudge, blotch, speck, fleck, spot, streak, bloodstain.

[2] Abstraction: noun. The quality of existing as or representing an idea, a feeling, etc. and not a material object, or something that has this quality.

Synonyms: conceptualization, idealization, isolation, extraction, separation, self-absorption, engrossment, concentration, contemplation, reflection, meditation, submersion.