Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who was only 19 years old when the poems were first published in 1924.
The poet has mixed in his verses the physical characteristics of several real women of his early youth to create an image of the unreal beloved that does not correspond to any of them in particular, but represents a purely poetic idea of his love object.

The set of words that make up Neruda's poems lead us to assume shape, size and color modeled in our imagination, sometimes transforming it into something crude,

In this series I have tried to tie these poems to my personal history and translate them onto images through my way of painting, my colors, and the images that come from my subconscious. I have tried to capture love as something beautiful, something that makes you feel more beautiful. I have studied the canons of feminine beauty such as the Greek Goddess Aphrodite- the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She was the most beautiful of all goddesses. These love poems exalt the body and feminine beauty describing a pure woman, of an exuberant beauty, as great as nature itself.

I based this series on my visual interpretations of the imaginary woman portrayed in Neruda’s poems. I try to represent a woman as a slave of love, who is "upright", dominant in the Universe, where she reaches a "living" creation, fundamental and full like a flower.