Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: “We are the scream of those who are no longer with us!” is a contemporary watercolor that is part of a larger collection which explores women’s empowerment and the ongoing struggle against violence, discrimination, and social oppression. Through several translucent layers that shift and change depending on the color of…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: “Metamorfosi Radicata: Sicura nel Mio Caos” (originally exhibited as Carrusel) is not a portrait of a woman, but rather a portrait of a moment of transformation and liberation. It is inspired by the idea that life is a cycle of change, in which we become the axis of our own…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: In this work ‘É leve o peso dos anos!’, the artist presents the tree par excellence — a presence that, regardless of its size, age, species, or location, stands majestically above human existence. Its being is so effortless and light that it evokes the true meaning of words such as…
Artwork Description: This work speaks of how beauty can keep on living even when it is no longer there. I didn’t paint an orchid, but the trace left by its petals; a subtle presence built through layers. Colombia, where I was born, is the country with the most diversity of orchid species in the world….
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: For this piece, I was inspired in amazonian systems of cultivation. The cacao tree, from which chocolate comes from, was domesticated around 5000 years ago by Amazonian peoples in their gardens (chagras) immersed in the jungle and its biodiversity. From their chagras, cacao travelled through trade routes towards Mesoamerica. The…
Artwork Description: This piece is part of a series inspired in the Amazon river called “Paranaguasú”, which is how various peoples of this region had named the river in precolonial times. Paranaguasú is a name of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family and it means “the great river”. This name is accurate since this body of water…
Artwork Description: The title of this work is a quechua word which means “the mother of water”. Yacumama is a giant Anaconda, the mother of all sources of water in the Amazon who protects the rainforest. When outsiders enter the region to log or hunt indiscriminately, Yacumama kidnaps them and provokes strong storms that run…
Artwork Description: I draw upon my studies in horticulture, alchemical reactions, and materiality, alongside a profound appreciation for nature. My current body of work merges plant morphology with human emotions by creating new species expressed through botanical rendering. Each plant is intentionally designed to adhere to its specific ecological parameters while simultaneously manifesting psychological conditions…
Artwork Description: I draw upon my studies in horticulture, alchemical reactions, and materiality, alongside a profound appreciation for nature. My current body of work merges plant morphology with human emotions by creating new species expressed through botanical rendering. Each plant is intentionally designed to adhere to its specific ecological parameters while simultaneously manifesting psychological conditions…
Artwork Description: I draw upon my studies in horticulture, alchemical reactions, and materiality, alongside a profound appreciation for nature. My current body of work merges plant morphology with human emotions by creating new species expressed through botanical rendering. Each plant is intentionally designed to adhere to its specific ecological parameters while simultaneously manifesting psychological conditions…
