I am not further able to say ;I think therefore I am; but rather ;I create language in order to exist;. This reasoning, which has become a requirement of the exercise of contemporary art, determines the conception of writing and other manners of communication used by artists to make their ;process; exist in language. The question arises: ;from where is the image written;. This essay inquires in the praxis of writing in the arts from a specific genre: The Essay , and was inspired by the interventions ;Translations and Tranlators; and ;Textures and Textualities; from the seminar: La Escritura como practica , of the Master in Plastic and Visual Arts of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The essay as a genre is hybrid and plural, as it combines different types of discourses. At the same time, its writing requires an ;inter-medial; operation between the esthetic dimension (art) and the epistemic dimension (science). In this manner, the Essay as the centaur of genres (Skirius, J, 1989), allows me to establish a manner of communication between the artist and its writing and serves as a metaphor of the exercise of contemporary art.