Shadow Studies

In the shade of a workshop patio in Misantla, Mexico, latex dries on wooden frames. The air is heavy, the light keeps shifting. Leaves of banana, guava, and bamboo cast their silhouettes across the surface — always in motion, never still. What begins as a practical gesture, moving the frames to keep them from drying unevenly, becomes a moment of quiet observation.

These works emerge from that interval: a choreography of light, breath, and material. Made with natural latex and iron oxide pigments traditionally used in Mexico to colour the material, the panels translate a fleeting phenomenon into a slow, tactile record. 

Developed between Misantla and Basel, Garden Shadow Studies extends a broader inquiry into material memory — how natural substances hold time, how craft becomes language, how perception turns into form. The work is not about representation, but about attention: the act of staying long enough for something ephemeral to become visible.

A dialogue between two latitudes, between craft and research, between what the light touches and what remains.

Shadow Study - Villa Renata -  1.6x1.0m - Natural rubber, mineral pigments and cotton textile, 2023

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