Edu Luna, Sculptor, Barcelona, Spain

    Self portrait - photo by Michael Frantzen



Edu Luna: " I dream of reach certain importance as an artist. It is not vanity  that moves me towards, but when someone gets famous and rich, the more possibilities he has  to help a lot of people to live their lives awake."

"New Players, same old rules" - photo by Edu Luna

BPP: Identity: Who you are? And who you really are?

Edu Luna:  I prefer to identify myself as someone happy to be what I am, to do what I like and to live where I am, someone who feels motivated to learn most of the time about the little things in life, which are the most important for me indeed. 

Which means enjoying the human experience in all its nuances rather than telling you that I am a sculptor, male in this present life, born in a town in the north of Argentina a long time ago; I used to be shy and introverted, devotee, engineer, businessman, I had three kids, I was an immigrant, professor, employee and also street fair salesperson.

At the same time I have several personalities: Like a child, a student, a scientist, a mother, an actor, a philosopher, a physicist, a brother, a storyteller, and even much more because I have all of them in me. I strongly believe we have everything inside of us and that we are a product of all that goes on earth. We’re connected and interconnected and all the emotions and feelings raised from this fact are a great source of inspiration for creating my life and my art.                                                                            

"Shadow of a guilt" - photo by Hernan Galbiatti

BPP: If you could say something important you've learned all these years of your life, to the other people and they were able to listen to you, what would you like to tell them?

Edu Luna:  Life is long but this one is somehow short and we can wait for things to happen spontaneously. We might move our energies and create our realities from our principles. I know sometimes living on this planet seems to be hard and complex and this fact could be dangerous for keeping our believes strong. But we should not fear them and be able to find the answers in our inside.

Edu Luna - photo by Michael Frantzen

Edu Luna: Let’s put all our energies in what we think and feel. It’s important to be loyal to ourselves regardless of others’ intentions and expectations. I’m not talking about acting like we were the centre of the galaxy in an egoistic manner. 

We can’t be afraid of this world and the people in it. Just love them and let yourself be loved and all you dreamed of will come true.

"Deep hug" - photo by Hernan Galbiatti

BPP: What is your real dream, the one that keeps you awake at nights and if one day it will come true, you will feel your heart calm and peacefull?

Edu Luna: My most important dream is living a life fully awake and you need a peaceful and calm heart for this. Luckily at night I sleep quite well, having dreams I like to delve into them. Even with the attempt of an awoken life, my dreams are composed of searches, memories, fears, desires, craziness, nonsense, sex, codes, inspiration, love, music, mysteries and many more things. They make me understand myself a little bit more and about life in this world.

Edu Luna - photo by Michael Frantzen

Edu Luna: I have another important dream by which to reach certain importance as an artist. It is not vanity or the feeling of lacking power that moves me towards this but I believe when someone gets famous and rich the more chances he or she has to be heard and respected. There are also more possibilities to help a lot of people to be owner of their selves, free-thinkers and free-spirits and finally to live their lives awake.

"Emergin' from" - photo by Hernan Galbiatti

BPP: How is life for the people in your country today? What do you wish to happen to them and to the people of this planet at large?

Edu Luna: My country of birth is Argentina although I’ve been living in Spain for 9 years. I am and I feel Spanish as well as Argentinian. But I could feel chinese, arab or african because my home is the world no matter of citizenships. My soul is very connected to the Mediterranean. To me lots of common things feel familiar as if they have existed for centuries and centuries in my life. Let´s see this little preference just like a particular taste, like a good wine.

In my country of origin the economical and social situation is quite different from what I left when I came to Europe and paradoxically today the situation in Spain is quite similar to that 9 years ago there. Like a spinning wheel we have cycles everywhere and we relive the same situations because we don’t want to learn from our mistakes.

   Edu Luna - photo by Michael Frantzen

Edu Luna: I think our main problem is that we have disconnected ourselves from the human essence, living a guided life like automats and forgetting our roots Nature and love. I think that in our society all is prepared to distract us and follow certain behaves which are economically convenient for some interests. 

Unhappiness is one of the main diseases in this part of the world and is due to the dissatisfaction of consumerism and the confusion of values of what is really important in life. If we understand inside of us that we are like a whole unity system then I believe there will be no differences and separations between people and only love, peace and happiness, like heaven on earth.

 "Hurt Mars triumphant Venus"- photo by Hernan Galbiatti

BPP: If you had the chance to be a child again, will you choose to do the same life you do?

Edu Luna: I don’t think I would follow a different path of life unless I would have been born with a different soul. I’m glad with all of what I lived through although that doesn’t mean I’ve been happy all the time.  I feel very grateful of what I found in life like my parents and relatives, my background, my friends, my past, my places. I use the word “my” because it was my history but I know nothing belongs to me except my own life.

The only thing I would change if I could is to have been more affectionate and less influenced by religious dogmas.  Anyway I’m happy where this path has taken me until now.

"Listening the world" - photo by Hernan Galbiatti

BPP: Which exactly was the moment you understood what you want to do in your life? How did you feel at this very moment?

Edu Luna: In my case it took me a while to discover what I wanted to do in life but in the meanwhile I did different things. Almost all of them were very interesting but my inner self at that time knew it wasn’t my vocation. Since I had a great range of interests from architecture to astrology, from math and physics to geography and traveling, it was really hard to define what I wanted to do as an option for myself as a career or way of living.

"Rest but not fallen down" - photo by Hernan Galbiatti

It was about less than 3 years ago when I last tried to seek a new job, that is a classical one, and decided to change to Art. I felt on the one hand very happy to do what my soul requested me to do but this is the romantic side of the story. 

On the other hand I felt very insecure about the future and my possibilities as artist and sculptor and how to support myself in life. It was a really hard period and I felt lousy because of the big, deep changes I was going through in my life. Lots of miseries, doubts and confusion haunted me until that darkness faded away and my mind was cleared to start doing things as a professional artist

"Starring you" - photo by Edu Luna

BPP: Something yours: Do you want to tell us something we didn't ask you until now?

Edu Luna:  I’d like people to be more awake and make them conscious of life and its beauty; that they could discover that everything and everybody is connected in this network called the world. I mean for example, subtlety and beauty could coexist harmonically with roughness and ugliness. Furthermore the contrast of the opposites could enhance our perception and understanding of something so different.

"Seeking heaven" - photo by Hernan Galbiatti

"Umbilical cord Madonna" - photo by Hernan Galbiatti

I feel inspired by all the beauty and creativity found in nature and the universe because I realize although matter and energy, visible or not, seem to be of different kinds, they are so closely connected, talking together and telling directly to your mind and sensibility of what they are, how they feel and what they where made for.

Sculptures are the result of mixing different energies part of me and part of the materials I use. And together they create a new energy. They are fusioned in one undetachable entity although sometimes our minds tend to separate things and put them in compartments.

"Tricornium volaris" - photo by Edu Luna

I like to show different issues in my work from social political to mythologies for example and I pretend the spectator could observe my work regardless if they know about art or not, regardless if they know the artist or his type of art; and I would love it if they just reacted, expressed themselves, reflected, criticized me or produced some kind of output from the experience. 

Something new would have entered from my inside to them; maybe good or bad, but something would have had changed and that’s a network experience.

Edu Luna - photo by Michael Frantzen

Edu Luna's drawing for BPProject

If you want to learn more about Edu Luna, visit:

http://www.eduluna.com
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Photo © by Edu Luna, Michael Frantzen, Hernan Galbiatti.

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