{"id":1040,"date":"2026-10-24T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/eclecticism-and-creative-freedom-listening-to-observing-and\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:01:44","slug":"eclecticism-and-creative-freedom-listening-to-observing-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/eclecticism-and-creative-freedom-listening-to-observing-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclecticism and Creative Freedom: Listening to, Observing and Absorbing the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/07-ecletismo-e-liberdade-criativa-ouv-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A framed portrait hanging in a gallery, with Wilson Isfer smiling beside it\" class=\"wp-image-1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/07-ecletismo-e-liberdade-criativa-ouv-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/07-ecletismo-e-liberdade-criativa-ouv-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/07-ecletismo-e-liberdade-criativa-ouv-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/07-ecletismo-e-liberdade-criativa-ouv-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/07-ecletismo-e-liberdade-criativa-ouv-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/07-ecletismo-e-liberdade-criativa-ouv.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never found it particularly easy to define myself through a single cultural tribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My relationship with music, for example, does not follow one specific style or genre. I am curious about very different sounds, coming from distinct cultures and musical worlds that do not necessarily share the same language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This curiosity goes beyond music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I enjoy observing different cultural expressions, sports, visual languages, architecture, nature and human behaviour. I am interested in what lies outside familiar territory, in the unexpected and in whatever raises new questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My eclecticism does not mean a lack of identity. On the contrary, I believe identity can be precisely the ability to select, absorb and transform references without having to reproduce any of them entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not feel the need to belong to a specific movement to legitimize my artistic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world offers an enormous range of possibilities. Music can awaken a feeling, an image or a memory. Architecture can inspire reflections on space and proportion. Nature can teach us about rhythm, balance and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These experiences do not need to appear literally in a sculpture to become part of its creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe an artist's repertoire is something alive. It changes with time, travel, people, books, conversations and even silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps that is why I value the freedom to experiment so deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not want my work to be restricted by a predetermined classification. I want to keep discovering possibilities, working with materials and developing my own artistic language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, being eclectic means keeping the doors open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">painting credit: Tavia Juckisch\u00a9 2013&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;@tavia.juckisch<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never found it particularly easy to define myself through a single cultural tribe. My relationship with music, for example, does not follow one specific style or genre. I am curious about very different sounds, coming from distinct cultures and musical worlds that do not necessarily share the same language. This curiosity goes beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-process"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}