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Killed by a Kestral is a multidisciplinary artistic production project currently expanding, and predominantly pictorial, that takes the figure of the castle and its semantic field (dragons, fortresses, treasures, spells, etc.) to forge its own narrative world. This world hyperbolizes a not very explicit, but open and sincere autobiography
Both the paintings and the drawings follow the same process of materialization: the preliminary sketching, the sketch on the support and the first stains are made with the left hand, while they are completed and refined with the right hand. Far from being a purely stylistic resource, this method seeks to simulate a child's workmanship. The right hand finishes the work, seeks stylistic innovation and escape from the confinement of the work on itself for its understanding. In addition, many icons and symbols come from children's drawings, usually personal or from the close environment, as well as from folklore and its modern reformulation.
In this project, the castle is conceived as a simile of the body. As the architect Juhani Pallasmaa points out, in architecture there is a metaphor of double correspondence: the body is a metaphor for the house, and the house is a metaphor for the body. This metaphor of double correspondence is rescaled to the border and the epidermis, as spaces that separate interiority and exteriority.