Conceptual statement
In my work I reflect on otherness. Walking through the city, and when I go running, I often come across car windows left in the street, witnesses to an act of vandalism.
In the series El futuro de la humanidad no está en el guerrero sino en el libro (The future of humanity is not in the warrior but in the book), I build books using broken car windows — witnesses to acts of vandalism — and handmade paper. I combine these two materials, which embody both destruction and renewal, suggesting that rebuilding a community alongside the other requires education and care.
The broken windows symbolize violence, while the slow process of making my own paper — planting the plants I use, extracting their fiber, and then preparing the pulp — symbolizes the slower process of repair. Rebuilding requires creativity and responsibility.
