BY GONZALO MÁRQUEZ CRISTO belong to fish, these mutant beings made of fragments of various species that can only hybridize in the mind of the artist vindicate the attractive deformations of desire, the secret monsters that swim in our unconscious in search of their most powerful adherence. And if drawing № ( FIG. 303 ) of the above-mentioned series, a cu- rious bipedal fish, exposes its sex like a star made of blood, and № ( FIG. 304 ) displays the tongue of an anteater and an eye in the form of a vul- va, while № ( FIG. 309 ) has the head of a unicorn and the body of a ser- pent, not to mention a breast like a swelling moon, it is the feminine prin- cipal that characterizes the acquiescent succubae and the male erection which takes the incubae to their powerful place in Christian mythology, that which displays its prominent existence. ey are the guilt that desire invents, which makes it possible for desire to become irresistible, and, more amazingly, are the testimony that all beings copulate with specters. Following this flight over the creative phases of the artist in search of the poetic, the drawings of zodiacal signs surge forth in ( FIGS. 201 213 and 310 311 ), personal representations of the celebrated esoteric ef- figies executed in pencil and watercolor that are conjoined with the atmosphere of Hieronymus Bosch, and especially with e Great Red Dragon series by William Blake, as the famous French writer André Pieyre de Mandriargues noted, in a commentary on one of Amaral’s exhibitions in the Galerie Albert Loeb in Paris. In his series of imperious colorings Per-Se ( - ; FIG. 312 ) and Quote Unquote ( - ; FIGS. 147 and 197 198 ), plotted in ink and watercolor during the new millennium and provided with great oneiric power, the levitation of several women is notable as they fall like lamps wearing enormous eyelashes, the acuity of the eyes, without their characters’ irises, the representation of their genitals like pink flowers, as well as the simplification of the forms already laid out by Pop Art, characteristics which give to these figures a sensual character and which enthrone them as fragmented travelers from a microcos- mos without weight. In another handful of drawings made from on, entitled Kaleidoscope, Imaginary Manuscript: Harlequin Dream ( ; FIG. 314 ), where the matte and the frame were linked together by the artist, which confers on them three dimensions and establishes, in the central area, a window ruled over by a protagonist figure, Puppet Ritual ( ; FIG. 315 ), which will participate in the exposition in homage to a novel of my own authorship carrying the same title, presents a person with a stupefied look raising a small sphere in the concavity of his hand, while his sex, exposed between two floating tables that seem to be painted by . Incubus and Succubus № , ‰‹‹‚. €‚×€‹ cm, pencil and watercolor on paper. . Sagittarius, Zodiacal Chart, Series № €, ‰‹‹•. Šƒ×”” cm, pencil, acrylic and watercolor on paper. ◀  . . Capricorn, Zodiacal Chart, Series № €, ‰‹‹•. Šƒ×”” cm, pencil, acrylic and watercolor on paper.