All the images are coming from Ilford’s Manual of Photography which depicts the right and wrong of making a photograph. I decided to use the book as my source, as a sort of starting point for the whole project. I keep the page numbers in the titles; in terms of general things, this is something that belongs to all of my paintings. They are talking about the painting themselves. So in a way, they are super introspective. That is the main thing. And also something that I like is the idea of making amendments, talking about the rights and wrongs. I mean, this is a false thing. You know, normally you look for the right? This is the fault, and this is like the underdog, in a way. All of them have been done with acrylic and oil paint, mainly. And I have put some photographic emulsion on them. The photographic emulsion is not there as a photographic emulsion, it is not depicting any photographic thing or any photograph. It's just the material. And I use it like a sort of, I mean, I could say it's a conceptual thing, but it's more like Othering. Because when you see the paintings, and I really want them to be seen in real life, but normally you see them in catalogues or social media. So when you see this photographic thing, you also see some photographic emotion. So they play with that. I like to keep that history of the digitalized image.

I always choose an image because of the quality of the image or one of the pages. Basically, I'm not choosing images. I'm choosing pages. I have made some changes. In some of them, I haven't made any changes at all, so I'm playing with that. In this work, I use metallic paint; there is some corrosion which creates areas of green from the copper oxide in the pigment which happens randomly. There is a lot of chance.

I don't want my paintings to look like photographs. I want this photograph or these pages to look like paintings. It’s really important for me, because most people say, oh, this is pretty much like Gerhard Richter. But, no, he wants the paintings to look like photographs. I want the opposite. I'm going in the opposite direction. And that is something I can do because of the digital source.