Debuting as an original technique from Alfonso Zetina, "the Memory Behind" aims to show the background and history from the main painting (layer). This allows the artwork to be composed with two or more layers: the external, containing the main graphic information, and the rear one containing a piece of handwritten information.

 

In the execution of such technique, several elements and mediums take place to structure an antique journal look alike base that subtly sticks out from within the paste, gesso, and other media with texture. In the body of the journal, Alfonso aims to communicate in a literary way, part of an expedition related to the landscape or nature elements built in the art piece. Some times, such literary resource may take the shape of a quote, a poem, a paragraph from his favorite authors, dates, names, places, latitudes, coordinates or simple thoughts inspired by journeys and friendship. 

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The Memory Behind is a concept of realization and homage about life, departing from the idea that memories and circumstances are much more complex and extraordinary than they may appear. An urban saying suggests that remembering an event in life is to live it again. Alfonso aims to engrave in a trascendental manner the sound of the water on a friendly creek, the chirping of an exotic bird, the whisper of the wind in the tall grass, the texture of the rough and naked rock, or the crackling of the gravel and sand stomped by a hiking boot.

 

And, once melting those memorable elements with the resource of the handwriting, the acrylic and oil strokes and other fibers, the audience is able to experience how memories navigate within an old soul and the adventurous mind.

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