A few months ago, in September, I was selected to take part in the II International Contemporary Art Encounter FRA, in San Pablo de Buceite. Organized by the Ayuntamiento de Jimena de la Frontera and the Municipal District Council of San Pablo de Buceite, the work I now present was born from those five days of gathering — days in which I was made to feel at home.  

The Sanpableña rises as a baroque allegory, bathed in dramatic light, dressed in inherited garments that drag history and dignity. Nourished by the aesthetics of Velázquez, Caravaggio, and Romero de Torres, her presence embodies the rural, feminine, and ancestral soul of San Pablo de Buceite.  

She does not look, she burns. She does not pose, she inhabits.  

- The Lucerna: an archaeological remnant unearthed from the soil, appearing as a symbol of ancient light, inner guidance, a fire that never dies.  

- The cork: freshly gathered, still damp, rests in her hands as testimony of labor and root.  

- Still life: lemons and oranges, with their rugged skin and solar aroma, scars of the earth and of toil. They are not fruits, they are ignited memory, luminous wounds that perfume history. Olive branches, rough and eternal, rise as witnesses of peasant effort.  

- Pre-war dress: embroidered with threads that resemble veins, with flowers that do not adorn, but remember.