'No estoy loca, soy artista': Paloma Correa's sensitive revolution

From the first page, I’m not crazy, I’m an artist unfolds as an intimate manifesto, a visceral declaration about the experience of living from art and for art. Paloma Correa, multidisciplinary artist born in Uruguay and based in Spain, opens up her creative universe with a disarming honesty. His work, which spans painting, sculpture, music, fashion, audiovisual and jewelry, is converted here into a mirror that reflects the inner pulse of those who believe without permission, those who face doubt, exhaustion, ego and the incomprehension of a world that often doesn’t know how to look at artists without labeling them as crazy.

Correa proposes a deep reflection on what it means to inhabit art at a time when productivity imposes itself on sensitivity and speed on contemplation. With a confessional tone, sometimes poetic and sometimes brutally realistic, the author dismantles the myth of inspired genius to show the other face of the creative process: the vertigo, the resistance, the obsession and the need to continue creating even when the desire seems exhausted. Art, in his vision, is not an escape or a whim, but a way of surviving a same thing, a discipline that demands total surrender, vulnerability and a type of love that sometimes duels.

In this book, which is less a guide and more an expanded diary, Paloma invites the reader to transit through the gray zones of the creative act: the blocks that paralyze, the ego trap that distorts, the impostor syndrome that threatens, the anxiety that inhabits the constant search for validation and the inevitable solitude of the artistic path. Instead, plant art as a refuge, as therapy, as a space of radical freedom where pain transforms into beauty. Everything is intertwined with an intimate narrative that does not seek to teach, but to share, as if each word was a conversation with the reader in front of a blank sheet.

Each chapter becomes an exercise in introspection. The questions you ask — Did you want to be today? What does it mean to be an artist? What did he say to you in five years?—they function as portals, opening the book to dialogue and transforming it into an interactive experience, into a personal ritual from which the reader also creates, also feels, also dares to inhabit his own chaos. “We all carry an artist inside, only we have to awaken him”, writes Correa, and in this phrase the essence of his manifestation is condensed: art does not belong to a few chosen people, but to all who allow themselves to feel.

Paloma Correa’s journey is that of a creator who was born among artisan brothers, in a humble family in Uruguay, and who, with the power of intuition and persistence, built an international trajectory without losing its roots. He has collaborated with brands and global figures such as Marc Jacobs, Adobe, Tokischa, GTA (Rockstar Games), Puma, Mietis and Olivia Mareque, and his work has been celebrated by media such as Vogue, Billboard, Vice, Maple Magazine, Decentraland, MAD about DEPOP or Non Magazine. However, behind each achievement, the book reveals the fragility that sustains success, the constant doubt, the silent learning, the need to keep the creative fire alive when exposure is tempered by erasing it.

His personal project, El Baile de les Biches, was born as a refuge in a moment of rupture, and today it is an expanded universe that mixes painting, sculpture, 3D animation and audiovisual. It is a space in movement, a living body where the artist explores desire, memory and identity, always from intuition and freedom, with the ambition to bring her visual language to the big screen. With more than 10 years of experience and a career that has led her to work in more than 20 countries, Correa represents a new generation of artists who embrace labels and choose to inhabit art as a form of total existence.

“Art is emotion in movement; it is transforming the invisible into an image, touching it symbolic with our hands.” In this sentence, Paloma condenses her philosophy: art is not explained, it is felt, it is crossed, it is inhabited. His work and his life are subject to a constant tension between objects: soft and powerful, intimate and collective, visual and visceral. Everything I create is permeated with that energy that oscillates between chaos and calm, between pain and the celebration of being alive.I’m not crazy, I’m an artist, I’m a solo artist, it’s a book, it’s an invitation to defuse harm, to understand that sensitivity is not weakness, that creative madness is, in reality, a form of lucidity.