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Sopitas

Ceramic series of the Spanish wordsearch puzzle "Sopitas"

After 13 years in New York I arrived in Spain during COVID and I came up with a very contextual project after learning ceramics upon my arrival.


I stumbled upon this crossword puzzled SOPITAS at a stationary and fell in love with it. That object spoke to me in the store. I went back to buy it the next day, cause I kept thinking about it in my bed at night.

It somehow echoed the glass work I had left in New York... It was a little message from the Universe. I knew it. It was the present for learning ceramics. The Universe was giving me an project to develop.


It is a funny one also. The words lists for the puzzles are hillarious :)


This is the first in a series of 10... I started with the USA´s States puzzle, as an irony.


I got interrupted as I was starting the philosophers one. But I´ll finish it.

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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