Martina Rogers IN RESiDENCE at the School Sagrera Sant Andreu

Starting point

  • Using hands, touch, as a way of getting to know the world
  • Getting dirty, plastic expression as a transformative and free tool
  • Connecting with people, empathy. Everyone has a story
  • Games and experimentation as creative processes
  • Letting oneself go. Dancing, body, and movement as tools to let things flow, relaxing
  • Technique as a balance between things happening by chance and control
  • Not knowing to be able to find things out, unlearning
  • The search for stimulating readings and visual, conceptual and sensory references

 

Subjects present in my creations

  • Access to other worlds
  • Rituals, amulets, magic
  • Symbolism, dreams, consciousness and the unconscious
  • Objects and emotions. Impressing, leaving a mark, traces  
  • The land, the link with the territory, feet
  • HOME
  • Giving life, soul. Moving to be able to see, revealing the invisible
  • Animals
  • Death, transformation, compost
  • Reflecting on usefulness and uselessness
  • Other civilizations

 

Techniques used

  • Clay and pottery
  • Experimental animation
  • Engraving (on different materials)
  • Painting, Chinese ink
  • Drawing, mixed techniques (waxes, pencils, felt-tip markers)
  • Autobiographical comics
  • Hybridisation of languages and techniques