Transmutation Notes (2016)
Becoming aware is a verb in the present tense—it means to remain constantly attuned to both the inside and the outside, to live through the skin, with the simultaneous ability to protect, absorb, and be marked. The experience in the Galápagos was a fertile time for cultivating awareness of the residual instants of daily life, like the pause between inhaling and exhaling. Inspired by Darwin’s travel notebooks, especially the Transmutation Notes, I sought to “capture” these subtle experiences through different printing strategies, avoiding any clear separation between feelings and thoughts that could lead to the objectification of the experience.
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The resulting works act as a “sieve of experience on the islands,” where different aspects of my time in Galápagos were left to settle. Each piece was created through a processual poetics, where provisional forms conveyed organic suggestions—approximating the idea of a large skin capable of accumulating, containing, and protecting everything lived in that place. The works include photographs, drawings, and sculptures resembling guts, imbunches, and bowls, made with materials such as ceramics, cardboard, linen, rope, plaster, soil, and newspaper.
