SIEMPRE

LOCATION: Badalona, Spain

Painted mural of my son, Neuquén, located next to the train station in Badalona. This piece was featured in the series of documentaries “La Pell dels Murs” (Skin of the Walls) released on TV3.

When I first arrived in Barcelona in 2001, the first mural I ever did was of my son, Neuquén, and here I am, 20 years later, creating a mural that combines so many things that he taught me throughout his journey by our side. It is now where his mother, brother and sister went up on the lift with me to help me create this homage to him.

Neuquén showed me so much, and I feel like a lot of the things I do today as an artist, with all the scale and complexity, are not barriers for me because caring for him showed me what true barriers are. All the other things that we let stop us are usually just in our heads.

Thank you beautiful, tender, wise, Neuquén for expanding my horizons in art, life and love. Thank you Ana, Milla and Alén for being such an important part of creating this mural and everything else in my life.

Thank you to Ana Alvarez-Errecalde and Fer Alcala for the beautiful photographs.