La huerta, 2025

Hand-cut paper / Fabriano 300g Cold Press acid-free

watercolor cardboard and museum glass

200 x 150 cm (78.7 x 59 in)

The vegetable garden can be understood as an open threshold that guides our gaze toward a domestic landscape where the branches of various food plants intertwine: bananas, potatoes, pumpkins, corn, tomatoes, among other fruit and vegetable crops. The starting point for this sculptural relief, created through the meticulous assembly of 42 layers of hand-cut paper, is a selection of precise botanical drawings of species that are now part of a global food system. In this work, however, the artist places them within the vegetable garden, within the home. The different species are interwoven to form a vegetable skein that evokes the wild domestic landscapes designed by Brazilian architect Burle Marx during the last century.