Rain Drawings
(2025 - Ongoing)
Rain Drawings is a year-long, site-responsive series of twelve copper plates developed on the roof of the house where I grew up in Bogotá. Each month, I place a new copper plate covered with salt and expose it to rain, sun, and wind. Through chemical reaction and prolonged exposure, the surface slowly develops shifting patinas and delicate traces. The rain becomes a drawing tool, and time becomes a collaborator.
Each plate is replaced monthly, marking cycles of accumulation, erosion, and transformation, and becoming a portrait of the rain that shapes the landscape. The surfaces hold traces of specific periods: their humidity, rainfall, dryness, and atmospheric conditions, registering subtle and slow changes.
Raised in a country shaped by the Andes Mountains and defined by recurring rhythms of sun and rain rather than four seasons, time could be understood as cyclical rather than linear. In Rain Drawings, weather becomes both subject and material. These works are quiet collaborations with place, where rain inscribes its own drawings, reflecting on memory, landscape, presence, and impermanence. Each plate becomes a quiet archive, an intimate testimony of rain, time, and place.
Rain Drawings, 2025
22 cm x 28 cm / 8.5” x 11”
Rain, copper, and salt
22 cm x 28 cm / 8.5” x 11”
Rain, copper, and salt
Rain Prints
(2025 )
This series of lumen prints was created during my time at Murmuration Residency in Arena, Wisconsin, using the rain that fell throughout my stay. Expanding on my earlier copper rain drawings, these works respond directly to the particular rhythms of this landscape: the space, the climate, and the time of the year.
In Wisconsin, around the solstice, rain acts as a vital force. It softens the ground, feeds the roots, and awakens textures, colors, and scents that have been resting through the winter and early spring. Throughout the residency, we witnessed a shift in the landscape: buds becoming leaves, flowers opening, the forest deepening in green, birds returning, insects, moister, and mushrooms emerging. We could feel summer coming, and the earth seemed to breathe more fully each day.
These prints are part of that process. Made with rainwater, light, and time. They hold the marks of a landscape in transition and capture traces of its seasonal awakening.
Rain Lumen Prints, 2025
13 cm x 18 cm / 5” x 7”
Rain on light-sensitive photography paper
13 cm x 18 cm / 5” x 7”
Rain on light-sensitive photography paper