Drawing is the basis of everything, of my thought, of my work, of my sculpture—of my words even. …These drawings here are my daily life …Maybe one’s life is a mysterious, enigmatic story, with no beginning or end. I almost get the impression I could measure my life by these drawings…For me, the process of drawing with my hand and my pencil and the process of writing are one and the same, and my ideas flow in a visual or verbal but absolutely intimate way… It probably has more to do with the intuition behind the writing of a diary. Rui Chafes
Spanning 30 years, Diários is a summŭla of Rui Chafes´s vision. Chafes´s drawings are things of secret, magic and transformation. Xamanistic manifestations of inner thoughts, grief, hope, fears, healing. They invoke demons, animal and plant deties, sexual impulses, prophetic curses, the ephemeral quality of life, the cycle of birth and death. Burning with collective subconscious lava they are the good fight between animal and God. Conceived in different series, drawn in different countries, papers and materials, when placed chronologically they reveal a vision of both solar and lunar powers capable of waking up the sleepers.
