Any conception of the territory is founded on perception.

In the 1920s Strzeminky formulated his unist theory, “Dualism and Unism”, based on the relationship between the kinetic and the physiological capacity of the eye. His work illustrates the way in which we are determined by physiology, while opening the way to different theories of perception.

The imagination establishes an empathetic bond with the dweller of the protected space of the Island. Created with materials referring to the place where it is created or to the spaces it represents, the island is recognisable as a calm and demarcated territory. A complex symbol, it emerges as a refuge from the threatening attack of the sea of the unconscious. It should come as no surprise to see a poet like Juan Hidalgo recreating himself in that image to give rise to one of his most evocative pieces, thus confirming that sometimes the simplest things are psychologically complex. Juan Hidalgo’s islands are, in the very fabric of their matter, fully alive. Matter and form converging in an object for contemplation that acquires, in someone who was born on an island, the character of the lived image.