Although my work has changed in appearance over the years, there has always been a focus on the portrayal of everyday things in a new light. In the beginning, this was not so much a conscious decision. My large paintings of mundane interiors simply started to take on a life of their own, inhabited by animated wallpapers or anthropomorphic kitchen appliances. In other works, single objects appeared as more important than they really are, an observation of life in an increasingly materialistic world.
I see art as an exciting and fulfilling adventure, one which is intrinsically bound up with the journey through life. The
practise of making art provides similar challenges, frustrations, twists, turns and surprises. It is also a process of self-exploration and helps me to understand myself better. For me, art is about bringing something of our inner life into the real world; to make the invisible, visible. When the skill, emotion and imagination of an artist come together at the right moment, amazing and mysterious things can happen.
Mal momento para hablar de la fealdad por muy literaria y romántica que se nos antoje. A la vista está la cotidiana reseña gráfica de la última aparición internacional de Carla Bruni. Hay gustos para todo y habrá a quien no le guste. Debe confesarse que ante esos ojos, esos dientes, ese todo con bailarinas viene una y otra vez a la cabeza lo que dicen que dijo aquel ministro de economía, cuando en una fiesta vio a la morena exótica –ésta era morena- que le hizo mandar a paseo la carrera política para prosperar, encima, en el Olimpo de las finanzas: “está para cogerla en brazos y llevársela”.
El último libro de Martín Cid "Un Siglo de Cenizas" nos transporta al viejo sur norteamericano de cultivadores de tabaco y nos ahoga en un mundo de iniquidad, fingimiento, engaños y violencia.
Laura Valentino 
