"Cecilia came to me a few times, maybe more; she knows I collect antiques and curios. She asked me to take her to my search sites, where we walked around old book stores, flea markets and stationary shops, which still have what we collectors call "NOS" (new old stock).
There we found old notebooks, photo albums, logbooks and other bindings.
We also found recipes and curious folders showing all these different bindings, designs, and images of a time or era. I went through my collections and showed her old labels, booklets, and books. It is difficult to describe the care that was visible in her hands. Her concentrated gaze was that of a careful, deliberate search. It showed that both in her mind and in her heart she wanted to find or discover material for her speeches, her work."
Logbooks
"Travel logbooks, among countless time records in writing, have always been the witness of a moment in time that gives us historical context, as well as the inevitable personal expression of whoever wrote it.
Cecilia retakes the old logbook format or foliated notebook to record what has always been difficult ... "the image." Describing an image in words leaves much to the imagination, yet Cecilia manages to give depth, color, texture and architecture to old bindings that were never used, or others that are being reused and even some that she herself creates, like old leaves that seem to offer the magic of incunabulum or written records of their own or of someone else's past."
"Cecilia can lead us through such a space, a landscape or a moment in life through which, beyond her own journey, we can find our own way, because when you open a book, a journal or a log, there is always the intention to find or discover something.
The images found in her writing can also be abstract, phytomorphic, or even just color- retouched old images of Don Quixote, which lead us to recognition, invention or imagination of the countless surprises that a closed book can give us when we browse it."
"We can find accounting bindings, recipe books, and countless sets of paper pages that had an original purpose, but have now mysteriously taken on another. The artist gives them a new life or a new form of expression.
These notebooks are inhabited.
Through our inevitable existence, human beings exist by inhabiting, (Through our very existence, human beings exist by inhabiting,) and thus Cecilia puts us in a moment, an architectural space or an open space, just as she makes characters inhabit shapes and colors in black notebook pages, pages with text, or even blank pages."
"Cecilia also expresses her bound story. She finds a way of expressing it in the passage of fabrics that can be "browsed."
She prints text and images on fabric and binds them together so that as a whole they depict the story of her father They may seem intelligible only to her, but they are a record of stories through feelings, which can be deciphered by their colors, intentional blurred images and the folds in the fabric as well as tears, mutilations and darnings to express the moment that has been lived."
"The expressive search through the notebook, or logbook, is the intervention of bindings that remind us of curious feelings from a particular moment, or even a lifetime. As we turn the page, or a group of older pages, we discover in a very surprising way, what an unknown or known person wanted to leave as testimony of his life and experiences, his knowledge, or that of others.
Thus Cecilia achieves the opening of an image, a space or a place between pages, an ensemble of past and future stories bound together."