Juan Escudero

Juan Escudero
Bilbao, 1966

When drawing, I make it a point to leave all the marks I've made visible and not make any corrections. I apply a system in which a first line prefigures the subsequent line, and if an irregularity occurs, it is reflected in the next line.

Similar processes occur in nature, so these drawings connect with familiar patterns and shapes such as surfaces, fabrics, fluids, orographies, waves, etc.

The basic idea for drawing is not to represent something but to activate a process.
It's similar to the automatic drawings we make unconsciously when talking on the phone.

A drawing like a musical improvisation, an automatic writing, a clear transit through the present without correcting anything.

Since 2017 I have been focused on intaglio engraving.

I see the finished matrix, with the carving of the drawing now invariable, as Platonically "outside of time." The idea is frozen. Later, the printing processes would be the movement, the dynamic time that the plate traverses with its richness of life.