Walking Home
(2021)
I refer to the leaves as a timid landscape as they are elements full of texture and patterns and organic forms that simulate not only physical but emotional spaces. It is also the reduction of the landscape to its simplest representation working as a metonymy.
This repetitive and curious gesture of collecting leaves was the recognition of this new home (Chicago), the places where I walk and the changing seasons (which don't happen back in Colombia). But also the representation of the longing and the desire to collect the landscape before winter came. Trying to keep nature close to me. The leaves became a way to archive these conversations with the landscape, a way to belong and connect with it.
This is a piece that is ongoing and always will be, as this action is part of my practice and my creative process.