Marina Roca Díe on The Patchwork Principle

For me, normally other people criticism says more about the person than about your art. I received the same criticism over and over, and it wasn't about some technical thing like what you posted, but about my subjects of interest. For years people always said to me that my art was disturbing. I was interested in the deformation and transformation of the body, so people took it as if, by bending and twisting bodies, I was bending and twisting their bodies. Or so I understood their comment. Which meant my paintings talked to them somehow. There was an element of truth in their criticism, which was the color palette I was using was very dark and unsaturated, due to a personal situation of being in a north European country with lack of sunlight, and coming originally from the sunniest country on earth. Well, in a way I used to get affected but also not. Like, you want to understand what others see in your work, but once you do, why would I bother myself to change it? It's who I am, so be it. They can change their perception of they feel like it. With time my work changed and my palette grabbed way more color, aso coming back to Spain to live, which makes sense. The more you practice your art the less you care what others say, but there is a bridge period that is overwhelming. Never stop!! And fuck those super hardcore criticism Facebook groups!!! People get turned on solely by the opportunity!! Just keep doing and you won't care at some point, I promise. But the way, I totally disagree with the unsaturated wall comment they gave you about your painting. That pink works very well in the atmosphere :)