For me the real symposium begins after leaving Barcelona

For me the
real symposium begins after leaving Barcelona. The concepts and methods I have learned during the workshops, the pictures I’ve seen of my colleagues,
the new tools and techniques that I have observed, even the new friendships that
I have made, all that “simmers” in my head right now.

Two years
ago in Lisbon I learned that it was not worth to get stressed to it all right
in all workshops, wanting to see everything, trying to talk to everyone. I
realized that I have to go at a pace that I can assume without getting insane
or knocking down with my own thoughts.

Curiously,
in Barcelona ​​I´ve seen this same sense of stress in some mates. It’s hard to take
a workshop in the morning, where they explain you one way of drawing, which
does not coincide in almost anything with what they explain you in the
afternoon. It’s normal that it seems difficult!

Every day I
am more and more convinced that drawing is a way to know yourself; that I cannot
remove or put stuff in my head faster or with less calm than my head is able to
absorb.

The
drawings I did just before Barcelona, ​​in the peacefulness of a beach, had
already been thought out, they were a product of previous long and rich
conversations with Cristina and Inma, and they reflect concepts I had learned
from them and that were boiling in my head for a week or more.

The
drawings I have made during the symposium are not worth enough to be uploaded
to my flickr account as they are no more than simple and clumsy experiments.  I can only highlight two drawings I did during
the final sketchcrawl, probably the result of all I have learned thanks to
James Richards. I cannot forget the pleasant and enriching experience it was to
collaborate with James in the workshop he ran at the symposium. James, apart
from being really friendly and nice, is a great professional from whom you can
learn a lot.

I know that what I´ve learned in Barcelona,
​​thanks both to him and to many with whom I have shared the experience these
days, is still on my mind so I hope that all that is boiling in my head will
eventually result in a good stew.