MONTAÑA II

 

This second phase of the project abandons multiplicity to embrace immensity no longer a series, but a single, vast drawing.

One piece, twenty feet in length, where the landscape becomes overwhelming, immersive, and monumental. A single breath held across paper, where the sublime no longer surrounds the viewer it engulfs them.

 

If Mountains I was a collection of gazes, Mountains II is a total encounter. Here, the mountain is not represented, it is invoked.

The drawing becomes a territory in itself an unfolding horizon that exceeds the limits of vision. You do not simply look at it; you stand before it as before a mountain: dwarfed, breathless, aware of your own smallness.

 

The sublime that tremor between beauty and fear becomes the core. Through graphite, light and shadow stretch across the vast surface like clouds passing over rock. Every gesture, every line, carries weight and silence. The work becomes an act of surrender not to control the mountain, but to let it speak through scale, through voids, through matter.

 

This single piece carries the memory of Mérida’s geomorphology, but it now drifts away from topography. The mountain dissolves into abstraction, into atmosphere, into sensation. The paper, like a wall of mist, offers space for the viewer to disappear or to be found.

 

The drawing becomes a passage not just of sight, but of feeling. It offers no fixed point, no center, no end. It stretches like the Andes themselves: quiet, infinite, and sovereign. In this space, the sublime is not illustrated it is experienced.

This is no longer about landscape. This is about standing at the edge of the world and listening.