Transformation and rupture, along with the ability of a -human, vegetable, animal, mineral- body to change and mutate, are my ways of understanding and approaching creative processes. Starting from chance and encounters with organic materials, everyday objects, and images, I create situations in which things grow, are born, fall, crumble, and melt. I am interested in the processes of rebirth and the interactions, correlations, and affections that arise in encounters between objects and other subjects. For me, the world is not an external domain that I only look at or on which I do things; rather, it is a process of continuous generation with me and around me. I believe in the vitality of matter and its power to transform life not only physically but also magically and emotionally. Nature and organic materials are predominant in my work; I am attracted by their changing qualities and their adaptive systems. They are also magical entities that support loads, provide protection, and possess emotional forces. For me, art is about raising vital energies, moving, turning, and caring.
I am also a ceramics and collage enthusiast. I love bright stickers, flowers, and paper cutouts.
Clay, wood, organic materials, stones, salt, and even fermented flour create magical entities that support loads, provide protection, and possess emotional forces. I take care of them, and they take care of me.
“Cura” is the name of the allegorical personification of care and dedication in Roman mythology. The Myth of Cura was an inspiration for this proyect. It tells the story of the creation of the first human: a figure made of clay. Jupiter gave it the spirit. Earth made its existence possible. Saturn called it Homo because it was made of Humus. Cura would keep the entity throughout his life. In that sense, cura—in Latin Help, Heal- “heal”—refers not to care as a concern or an affliction but as a sense of devotion.
Gravity Force Objects
Weight Protection
Circles
Cosmic
Contingence
Earth
Ghost
Luminous
End
Blindness
Aridity
Affection
Holding on Letting go
Matter
Resistance
Wind Forest Accident Power
Bodies
Change
Branch
Burn
BOUQUET
Ice bulbs and yellow flowers
2mts. x 1mt. x 1mt.
Ice bulbs as energy sources hang on a flower arrangement. After a period of 24 hours they completely melt over the flowers. Light bulbs, flowers and ice, symbols of the fragility and brevity of life, come together in a Vanitas of constant transformation and darkness.
ARKTOS
Painted plants, lights, photography filters.
Home plants were covered with metallic paint. After several months, new leaves emerged, these shoots differed from the previous ones due to their color. A hybrid being was born, where the “artificial” and the “natural” coexist and create colored halos. Time was made vissible.
FIVE KILOGRAMS OF SUGAR
Dishes, cups and sugar
3mts. Hight
Stalactite are mineral formations that begins to be created with a simple drop of water that when it falls, leaves behind a fine trail of calcite. 5 kilos of sugar were turned into caramel stalactites. Drops of candy were watered one by one until their accumulation formed a narrow tube. These structures, never solidified, continue to release drops that fall over cups and plates located on the floor, dishes from different owners, warehouses and wineries that are reunited in dissimilar sets.
I will keep Broken Things: The big clay Pot With raised Iguanas Chasing Their Tails; Two Of their Wise Heads Sheared Off; I will keep Broken things: The old Slave Market Basket Brought To my Door By Mississippi A jagged Hole Gouged In its sturdy Dark Oak Side. I will keep Broken things: The memory Of Those Long Delicious Night Swims With You; I will keep Broken things: In my house There Remains An Honored Shelf On which I will Keep Broken Things. Their beauty Is They Need Not Ever Be ‘fixed.’
I will keep Your Wild Free Laughter Thoug h It is now Missing Its Reassuring And Graceful Hinge. I will keep Broken Things:
Thank you So much! I will keep Broken Things. I will keep You: Pilgrim Of Sorrow. I will keep Myself. ~Alice Walker
ANAKONDA
Flowers Viola X Wittrockian
Taking as a reference the shadow created by the sun and a group of trees, a line of flowers was planted forming a snake path. Gardens are living, ephemeral and changing monuments, as well as places to wander. They are spaces of creation where the relationship of man with nature is reflected and the experience of a habitat is translated into a plastic language.
“Pensamientos” is the common name in spanish for flowers Viola X Wittrockian. It literally means thoughts. Taking as a reference the shadow created by the sun and a group of trees, a line of flowers was planted in a garden, building a path as a metaphor for a mental itinerary.
