La memoria de narciso 3 presents a visual tension between two forms of representing value: an organic, irregular, almost mineral surface and a lower gemstone constructed through geometric facets. In this abstract drawing, James Bonachea transforms these elements into a suspended composition where materiality appears detached from its everyday function. Green dominates the work, connecting both forms while their contrasting treatments create a dialogue between the natural and the constructed. The precision of the gemstone against the gestural texture of the stone reinforces the series' conceptual exploration of appearance, desire, and symbolic value.
 
This series of works stems from the reflection on the value attributed to objects (metals and precious stones), established culturally and historically by society. By means of the two-dimensional representation where the artist creates a series of drawings that dialogue ironically with the concept of value, understood by the added content, I represent scenes and objects that are directly related to the idea of ​​exchange and judgment fundamentally using a chromatic range that is associated with said judgment (gray graphite as a physical component of the diamond in another density, gold, silver and bronze as metals representing different scales of value), combining such materials by its chromatic symbolic quality. The artist I use the technique of watercolor on cardboard and graphite on canvas as a medium essential for the realization of this project.
 
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