El inverso de sus formas

El inverso de sus formas (2020) - [english: the inverse of their forms] each piece of the grouping is a 11” x 14” handmade pigmented abaca/ragboard sheet with a blow-out repeat design attached to a plaster backing.

The pattern design came from an interpretation of the small rocky debris of various landscapes I encountered around the flat and arid Andean regions of Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. These vasts deserts and unique landscapes often repeat small pebbles until its a blur of color, with the focus points being the larger chunks, the rocks that sit among them all. In an exercise to visualize what it would be like to see from underneath the surface of a desert, the rock shapes have been inverted inwards into the piece rather than extruding out. A subtle grid in the repeated pattern is intended as a connection with maps and charting, and the white of the inverted rocks is to give a touch of the celestial, of the looking “up”, to a piece that has so many earthly properties.