CHICOTE CFC
"The life and work of Chicote are pure reflection,
an equivocal introspection that suffers
of being as banal and as absurd as it is
the most judicious of efforts to argue life"
Chicote cfc / 2012
PROCESS
SIMBIOSISMO
Once photography reaches the highest level of its capacity for retouching, manipulation, and visual impact, an inevitable turning point emerges. Its evolution as an autonomous medium begins to encounter the limits of its own language. It is at this threshold where the need for a deeper transformation arises: the image ceases to be merely a record and becomes a form of perceptual construction. In this transition, photographic practice can move toward hybrid territories in which the image is no longer understood as a document, but as a plastic and malleable substance. It is within this context that what we call Symbiotic Art or Symbiosism is situated: a process in which the original photographic image —the photogenesis— undergoes a symbolic metabolization that transforms it into a new unit of visual meaning. The integration of pictorial procedures within the development of the image allows its structural elements —light, colour, texture, contrast, and composition— to be reconfigured not as original attributes, but as reinterpreted components within a new perceptual logic. The resulting image does not simply represent another reality: it reorganises and reconstructs it from a distinct visual identity, albeit one derived from its origin. Symbiosism does not establish a closed method. On the contrary, it is grounded in the procedural openness of the work, where each artist develops their own system of transformation. This absence of fixed codification does not imply arbitrariness, but rather the organic evolution of language. It is time, research, and experience that consolidate a unique stylistic identity within each creative process. In this sense, the author’s current work forms part of an ongoing line of research that will continue to evolve in coherence with the principles of Symbiotic Art.
“The artist today is more experimental than ever.
He researches, rehearses, and probes constantly with his work.
He hardly plans the final result of his work"
Chicote CFC / 2012
METHODOLOGY
STUDY AND
The integration of photographic procedures, pictorial resources and digital tools considerably expands the possibilities of artistic creation. It is not simply a matter of combining different techniques, but of establishing a working system capable of transforming, manipulating and reorganising the image in order to explore new expressive possibilities.
This process requires mastery of different resources and, above all, the ability to understand how they can interact within a working methodology.
ARTISTIC RESOURCES
The creative process is rooted in training and experience related to traditional artistic procedures. Knowledge of pictorial techniques, their materials, possibilities for combining and mixing them, as well as the treatment of surface, colour, texture, light and composition, makes it possible to transfer certain principles of artistic practice into the digital environment.
This is complemented by the capacity for observation, imagination and abstraction required to interpret the image beyond its immediate representation. The tool itself does not determine the result: it is the artistic intention that selects, transforms and organises the available resources, turning them into a means of expression.
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
Photography constitutes the visual starting point and provides a structure based on the capture of light, framing, composition, perspective, depth and the information contained within the image.
Knowledge of the photographic process makes it possible to select and produce images suitable for subsequent transformation, as well as to understand which elements can be modified, enhanced or reinterpreted during the different stages of the process.
DIGITAL AND COMPUTER RESOURCES
Digital tools make it possible to intervene in the image with a degree of precision, control and reversibility that is difficult to achieve through exclusively analogue procedures. Mastery of image-editing and design software enables selective work with colour, light, texture, transparency, scale, composition and structure.
The use of filters, effects, masks, layers and different image-processing systems makes it possible to develop progressive transformation processes. In addition, templates, basic elements, resource libraries and programmed workflows can be created to streamline certain operations and maintain a higher degree of precision and consistency throughout the process.
INTEGRATION OF RESOURCES
The true potential of the procedure lies in the interaction between these three fields. Photography provides the visual material; pictorial knowledge contributes criteria for interpretation, transformation and artistic construction; and digital tools make it possible to develop, control and multiply these operations.
The result therefore does not depend on the isolated use of a particular tool, but on the ability to establish relationships between different procedures and transform them into a single visual language.
In this sense, digital technology does not replace artistic knowledge: it expands its field of action and makes it possible to explore possibilities that would be difficult to develop through a single procedure.
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Final Result of the Work / Title: LA COMITIVA (2016) EM-P0187
Means and resources used during the process.
Both in the conception and in his approach, "Chicote" distances himself from any interference that could generate doubts, conflicts, questions or provocation, as well as from anything that intends to change, offend or alter the principles of the observer while contemplating his work. This is limited solely to expressing personal emotions, feelings and reasoning about what he observes, feels and senses. It is a mere analysis exercise within that phase that leads him to the search and recognition of his own entity as an individual.
Summary of processes and intermediate steps in the execution of the work
Simbiosismo
Simbiosismo
PROCESS OF CREATING A WORK IN SYMBIOSIS