1 - What does Visual Poetry mean to you?
It is poetry that derives its meaning not from the sonority of words, but from their form. After cuts, shifts, and dismemberment, the words and letters lose their graphical condition and are reconstructed in new combinations, reemerging impregnated with visual poetical meanings.
2 - Who were and/or are your sources of inspiration, your models (either poets or artistic movements) in this artistic medium?
I work with what I like, with visual stimulus of any nature, provided it pleases me and instigates my curiosity. The contour and shape of letters attract me; body, lines, grays and blacks, colors and the geometric visual syntax that may be attained through them.
3 - Why did you choose to create, or why do you enjoy creating, Visual Poetry as one of your artistic expressions?
I did not choose to make visual poetry, I just like letters. I like writings. Mainly, I like the form of any alphabet, the visual whole unity that exists in writings of whatever origin.
4 - When did you first adopt Visual Poetry as a mode of expression?
The work with letters is part of a set of attitudes, as appropriation and collage, which continuously accompanies my artistic production between 1970 and 1980, when I participated in several exhibitions at the National Hall of Modern Art, until more recent exhibitions, when these attitudes achieved new approaches.