JIM AMARAL TRANS/FIGURATIONS published to combat witchcraft. Amaral’s representations, composed of small-format drawings illuminated with watercolor or acrylic, blend these two demons into unique zoomorphic figures equipped with some human parts with which he seems to refer metaphorically to the bestiary of the unconscious. In the hundred drawings that make up the series Quote Un- quote , the artist returns to a theme that he developed extensively during his early days: multitudes of human figures, usually naked, relating to each other in an erotic climate in broad daylight. In these weightless scenes everything is possible and line plays a fundamental role in narrative description, aided by the application of transparent and jocular colors. Jim Amaral has created a language and a poetic universe on the margin of the preoccupations of national and international van- guards, which has materialized through very refined and personal techniques. His work, nourished by silence, reflection, and sensibil- ity, explores its own uncertainties and questions with no answers. It talks about the body, not the one from the conventional atlas of anatomy, but the symbolic body of senses and perceptions, phan- tasms, desire and memory, made of fragments and associations. An esthete, cultivated and sensualist, in his exploration he constitutes transfiguration laws for his hieroglyphics and metaphorical beings, developed through transformations, associations, mutations and hybridizations. What is embodied in them is not the monstrosity of a teratological catalog but poetry and myth. is sort of mys- terious iconography of the ambiguous riddles of the unconscious, which departs radically from the decorative function of art and adopts personal search through symbolic elaboration, goes beyond the conventions of propriety and appearances. It is marked by an acute awareness of the limits of the ephemeral human condition and the enjoyment of imagination which, with the help of the transfigur- ing of beauty, becomes a temporary antidote. . Quote Unquote №  and , ‡ˆˆ‡. —ˆ×‡“ cm each, watercolor and ink on paper.