JAJAJA un abrazo a las dos!!!

The following was taken from a note published on the "La Jornada" by: Germaine Gómez Haro, translated using Google Translate.

Original note: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/07/08/sem-haro.html

Hugo X. Velazquez (Mexico City, 1929), considered one of the foremost exponents of contemporary Mexican pottery. Velasquez was one of the first artists who worked on stoneware (ceramic high temperature) in our country, in the early sixties, a technique he learned in New York in two of the most prestigious potteries, the Greenwich House Pottery and Karen Karnes and MC Richards, in Stony Point. There he met and had the opportunity to see the great work Peter Voulkos, who say the Mexican, "is the Picasso ceramics. In the show entitled Shadow Stone and Zen Porcelain presenting his recent sculptures, which reveal their quest for a formal synthesis in a highly personal language which is now fully recognizable and true reflection of the freshness and spontaneity that characterized his personality Luddism. Elements such as vacuum and the paradox are a constant in the work of Hugo X. Velasquez. Sudden and subtle contrasts of full and empty, presences and absences, rest and movement, control and freedom, chance and precision in language alternating ceramic and impromptu notes on the poetics of jazz. His art is a series of paradoxes that integrate smoothly and harmoniously and refer to the great "empty heart" of Zen in his creative process, Hugo is carried away by the rhythm of the cadence in a stream without consciousness in which inner and externals are not marked by a precise boundary. Perhaps, also, their time indoors have anything to do with Eastern philosophy: his hands gently caressing the clay, shape or improvise subtly, without haste, and patience is condescending to the days of mud and fire. "In ceramics there are no shortcuts," Hugo is repeated each time you turn the oven loaded with parts. The expected mean time to anxiety and enjoyment, as with the beloved.

Each piece of Hugo X. Velasquez is a foray into unknown lands, a journey through the territory as possible through paths of uncertainty. Hugo sees the world with a transparent blue eyes you know and translate it to grasp the void by Zen rhythms imperceptible marking the balance between space and matter. There is no artifice or accident, but the presence of fate that guides the evolution of a piece from the delicate hands of the creator to the primeval fire that stopped the movement of the ceramic body forever. The works of Hugo X. Velasquez is a kind of fragile sighs detained in a fleeting moment.

This photo was taken handheld with the following:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II,
EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM,
Aperture: f/10
SS: 1/200
ISO: 200

RAW Processed with Apple Aperture.