Botanical Notes for an Uncontrolled Migration / Notas botánicas para una emigración descontrolada
Bas-relief with plaster
40 x 30 cm
Traveling seeds come from plants that produce fruits and seeds with adaptations allowing them to fly far with the wind and fall like parachutes, seeking more favorable environments for their growth. This characteristic evokes a vision of migration as a purely natural phenomenon. Landscape Built from Memory is a series that explores the effects of light and the passage of time on the Cuban landscape, which is constantly changing. Moreover, our perception will never be the same; we leave, and upon returning, it is no longer there—it has transformed. Here, spaces of reality dissolve, along with our memories when we migrate, leaving us only with what our memory can truly retain, which it then reconstructs from afar in every thought. Botanical Notes for an Uncontrolled Migration zooms in on parts of the landscape often overlooked in our gaze toward the horizon, yet they are the very elements that shape it.