René Serrano Rodriguez Blog

My Top 4 Records I’m making this post to answer a “coffee question” from my dad: What are my four favorite albums? Or rather, the most challenging ones I’ve come across. So I decided to treat this exercise somewhat formally, simply for the pleasure of doing it well. First of all, I should say that I’m NOT a record collector; more than a music lover I’m an audiophile—and in that sense, a bit of a “hoarder.” I’ve never counted them (and I don’t intend to), but I’ll share a photo of what I have. They’re not many, really, but they make up the soundtrack of my life. I’ll start with the four albums I would take with me to a desert island: 1.- Abbey Road . Formally, it’s the last studio album recorded by  the Beatles , since Let It Be was “shelved” amid various complications and released more as an epilogue.  I own several editions, and my favorite is the 2019 remastered version. I should add that the first time I went to London, my very first activity in the morning was to go a...

 The image above is from the year 2011 and captures the moment when I destroyed my notebooks containing notes and projects up until that year. I felt it was a point in my life when I needed to elevate my artistic processes and improve the way I developed my notes in my notebooks. Now, I am truly happy with the process and organization I maintain in my notebooks, and I have decided to digitize them to create a backup. I’m sharing one of them with you. Notebook 04. Link for reader book https://www.calameo.com/books/007867207db9dd6af6c24 Link for single images https://reneserranorodrigueznotebook04.tumblr.com/

  Project: The Tree of Life 2024 A seven piece painting commission about family, flowers,birds and the love of life itself. TOL20240925 (SOLD) Mixed media / Canvas 170 X 170 centimeters (67X67 Inches) 2024 First test /Sketches This series is about the representation of nature, a recurring theme throughout the history of art. The Tree of Life is a symbol found across various religions and cultures, including Christianity, Judaism, Celtic traditions, and Turkish mythology. It has held many meanings, such as the union of life and death, the connection between heaven and earth, and the harmony between people and nature. It can also represent the primal energies of creation and the cycles of life. The Tree of Life often features a tree trunk with branches that spread out and then return to the trunk. The trunk may symbolize the union between life and death, while the branches can represent the paths we take in life, all leading back to the trunk. Branc...

  Psycography. Is an ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing... The hand that is writing is under the control of separate hypnotic personality during trances." The Automatic Writing and Double Personality. 1890 Boston Medical journal paper. By Morton Prince, American physician specialized in neurology . Link to Download the paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LMXfAulhUqTGHyYTf3CDhTriVjTnZClR/view?usp=sharing

  Hypergraphia is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw.  Some studies have suggested that hypergraphia is related to hypomania, and schizophrenia.  An apparently non-contextual elevation of mood (euphoria) that contributes to persistently disinhibited behaviour.

The Devourer of Alephs *JLB20231201  Mixed media / Wood 55 X 26 X 30 cms 2023 . . In honor to J.L. Borges The Aleph and Other Stories (Spanish: El Aleph, 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges . The title work, " The Aleph ", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword , dated May 3, 1949 (Buenos Aires), that most of the stories belong to the genre of fantasy , mentioning themes such as identity and immortality.  Borges added four new stories to the collection in the 1952 edition, for which he provided a brief postscript to the afterword. The story "La intrusa" (The Intruder) was first printed in the third edition of El Aleph (1966) and was later included in the collection El informe de Brodie (1970). [1]

Relics of the ancient god of literacy.  (Relics of Nabu) Two containers of 10.5X13.5X7.5 cm each one. Mixed media 2023 The relics boxes remind me of my childhood but they are present in rituals and ceremonies in many cultures around the world. Like an Antique ritual relics this is a metaphor from our innocent memories, friends and childhood plays. Around the 8th century BC, Nabu was the ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom. As the god of writing , Nabu inscribed the fates assigned to men.