What is the basis of the work in the Studio?

    The impulse of the work

                                        of Evoke Studio is

                                                                                  The art of gesture.

In the art world this is nothing new, as all artists work with gesture. However, the focus of Evoke Studio offers a wider perspective than simply artistic or the craft of an art.Its basis is a combination of all the arts, for example, drawing, clay modelling, painting, sculpture, writing, voice work and movement.

All this is done through the work with the five senses, (sight, listening, touch, taste and smell), as windows that combine not only all the arts, but also the human being as one whole.

All of us are potential artists.

To express oneself as an integrated person, we need to first of all centre ourselves in an individual way in relation to one sense and begin to develop from this point.

During a patient process,   we can try to begin to apply the artistic media that we have chosen,  be it visual,  audio, or movement based,  converting it into a bridge between the other senses.

Once the senses are more relaxed, they can become more attentive, and our imagination can begin to take on its most immediate environment, be it a landscape, a still life or an object in movement

And begin to copy, study and express it in its unique and individual way.  

One of the first steps is drawing or copying.

(This applies to drawing as we know it, as well as movement, voice, dance, writing and music)

Drawing consists of tones, intensities, rhythms and lastly lines.

One could say that copying this is about capturing 9or gathering the 3 dimensions of our material world into one dimension or surface.

For a pupil to learn this, it is not enough to use a computer, because it is not a vital transformative personal vehicle of interpretation of its source.

The student is this.

The action

To understand what it is we do when we draw or copy; we need to begin to understand how they function and what the relationship between the 5 senses is.

This should not be and is not an intellectual process. Its needs to be put into practice to be understood.

The senses

The senses have one sense in common.

Touch.

Our eyes are touched by the presence or absence of light in space.

Our ears by waves that are transmitted by the sounds through the air and space.

Our tongues move and breathe through the saliva in our mouths and touch the food we eat, integrating this into our bodies through air and water.

Our noses introduce into our interior real particles of physical material and are touched by these, and through the air and space the smells or odours are transmitted to us.

Our skin, flesh and bone touch and are touched because of their physical material, through the action of the four elements.

The three intensities

Touch goes through 3 intensities.

Imagine a bird settling on or flying from the sand of a beach in slow motion. Imagine not only the impression left on the sand after it has gone, but each step landing and leaving.

This can help us understand a little the 3 basic levels of touch.

Making first superficial contact;

Taking hold of;

 Letting go of;

The impulse to touch goes through these three places. It increases and decreasing in tension through the contact, the taking hold and penetration, and the letting go of.

This is a law of nature in both movement and material.

First the Skin, then the flesh and the muscles,

And lastly the bone.

The aesthetic

These 3 intensities, you will always finding a good drawing, painting, sculpture, photo, poem, story, song, movement or piece of theatre.

Anything that denies this process becomes a distortion of an ancient universal law that holds everything in and out of balance.

The work of art  does not have to be a perfect copy, to transmit these three qualities, and at the same time a perfect copy, if its takes into account these aspects, itsÕ original source will be strongly reflected in its result, because simply it has been heard and respected.

It is because of this that all the work in Evoke Studio is based mainly in the sense of touch. During a long period the work is realised with eyes closed and looking very little at the page or work surface or the space in which we move. With theatre masks for instance we do not use mirrors, and only occasionally do we video work. Our senses are the bridges of our reflexions.

Our hands and our bodies become our most precise and sophisticated instruments.

The fusion and the artistic creative confusion

When the students has learnt to develop this process of:

Seeing with the hands

Hearing with the eyes

Looking with the ears

Tasting with the nose

Smelling with the tongue

Then, it is when the magic can begin.

His or her thought, emotion and action becomes one focused source y makes it possible to untie and discover the talent that he or she never thought or allowed themselves to know they had.

This is the starting point of all the work in the studio and is an open door to what I call the fourth dimension of art:

The inner experience of the imagination, the movement of the soul and the individual language of the spirit of each artist and human being