Every human question has always had something to do with the way people interpret reality. Our relationship with what is happening around us is the result of a continuous evolution through art, science and religion. In this process, art has always sought to negotiate a worldview that blended the physical logic of science with the spiritual dogmatism of religion in order to bring these two absolute notions closer to human experience.  

The artist gives spirit to inanimate material and physical form to the supernatural essence of faith. Art blends fundamental elements of belief and experience to advance a consensus about reality, which although never uniform has been the basis of all the development of our species since the dawn of civilization. 

Life is nothing more than material imbued with awareness and knowledge. Thus, all living material is sapient, every living thing possesses some sort of knowledge. Among all the living beings, however, the human race is the only one able to believe and to have faith in things beyond the reach of their own immediate sensations. Faith is a particularity exclusive quality of our species, having been developed over thousands of years by clerics, scientists and artists. Believing means forging a relationship with the world beyond the mind, beyond the limits of the senses of time, of physical presence, and of life itself. Faith makes man a unique animal insofar as it allows him to transcend his physical and temporal existence and to forge a relationship with the universe as a whole.  

Just as faith makes us more human, those who exercise it best become examples of humanity. The saints – examples of people who put their faith above their own life – have always exercised an enormous fascination in artistic minds and it is not by coincidence that the history of art is so closely related to the history of faith. A large part of what we admire in the history of art is objectively related to sacred art and subjectively related to the act of believing.  

As a contemporary artist, I have always been eager to share the themes that have contributed to the development of the culture of images. My relationship with sacred art in this contemporary context, however, has always been ambivalently restrained by contextual norms contrary to the practice or illustration of religious forms. It is in this unique and unorthodox context that I found the rightful freedom to work with these themes that are close to my personal life and yet distant from current art. As someone who has always worked with the act of believing, I finally illustrate here, through the confused lens of the contemporary outlook, images of those who dared to believe more than everyone else. Art most resembles life in terms of how its apotheosis results from the faith invested in it. The saints, examples of faith and transcendence, continue to teach us to believe and to live as true human beings.