Páramo is a term that refers to an ecosystem where the terrain is usually flat, not very fertile and desert-like, where scrub predominates and watercourses are scarce. By extension, some dictionaries refer that the term can also refer to sites that do not provide shelter or protection.
In this sense, tree trunks cut down in the city of Havana -unproductive and abandoned- constitute the raw material of the piece Páramo. On them have been placed rolls of paper on which were printed the names of social leaders from all over the world who have been assassinated for defending dissimilar causes. Although old and truncated, these fragments of what was once a tree seem to retain some life. That is why the circles that describe the paper rolls metaphorically allude to the growth rings that in a "slice" cut allow us to know the age of the trees. So, rather than insisting on a fateful vision of these processes, the work evokes a complex skein that connects nature-landscape, politics and social conflicts, a topic that has become a leitmotif in some of my recent works.