Humberto Osorio Cuán, December 14, 1970.

When I think back on my childhood, I am overcome by a deep feeling of bittersweet loneliness. My traveling companions were toys, music, and colored pencils, the latter generating many future academic problems due to not being able to "discern" on which surface they should be used.
Adolescence arrives and with it irresponsibility and excesses, worthy representatives of this mutation that, years later, would lead me to gamble with my own existence.
Once the complex obstacles were overcome, travels arose and with them the real school. I met the artists I had read so much about, yes, I did because having their work in front of me allowed me to do so.
Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velázquez, Rafael, Caravaggio, Matisse, Rubens, Van Gogh, Picasso among many others and later Lucian Freud, Manolo Valdés or Anselm Kieffer.
I can call them my teachers, because each one left an indelible mark on my way of seeing the world and they still give me the necessary nourishment to walk and understand this path called Art. Like them, I decided that a large part of my experience on this earth should be captured on canvases, pages and wood.
Thus began a fairly productive period; paintings full of ideas and color, but also of irony and some humor. Exhibitions, interviews and trips appeared, but deep down I felt that something more had to happen with me and my projects.

Seeking to delve deeper into the complexity of human behavior, a decade ago Quantum Physics came to me, and with it meditation and experimentation with sounds. I had to give myself the necessary time to study, practice and assimilate this great gift that was being given to me to understand life.
After many drawings, mixes and tests, in 2023 I take up the brushes again to start a new series of paintings; the result of all these lived experiences. More than criticism, I seek reflection.
To conclude, I must say that as an adult I decided to return my gratitude for their company to all those old toys, reviving them in photographs; to music no longer just listening to it but creating it; to paint, always committing myself to "discerning" where is appropriate place to apply it.