Ciclo

Ciclo explores the concept of 'Mother Nature' and the associations of innocence given to nature. I made a painting (material: acrylics, dry pastel and guache on paper; size: 1,60mx0.70cm), a sculptural installation (material: plaster sculpture on sand and plaster powder; size: 1,75m) indoors and a sculptural outdoor installation (material: plaster on soil; size: 30cm height) with this concept. Innocence is very much connected to playfulness and childhood.

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I question the way Nature is viewed in the Western context. It is often perceived as a place of calmness and refuge, very much linked to ideas brought by Romanticism. Nature is often a mother. There is constant birth and rebirth. In some paintings - such as 'Source' by Pablo Picasso, 'Le Source' by Renoir, 'The Source' by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -, women are often depicted as a fountain or a source of life, just like water. 

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I wanted to represent 'water' coming out the figure as a way of questioning where the concept of innocence in Nature came from. 

Menstruation is often considered the end of a 'woman's' innocence, especially in a cishetero patriarchal society. Menstruation is a natural biology function in people with vaginas and some intersex people, but it is often stigmatised and distorted into something considered deviant or disgusting. Along with this line of questioning, it made me wonder about whether Nature was also meant to have a passive role like women have had historically. And whether our care of Nature comes from a deep place of consideration or if the relationship between humans and Nature comes more from a place of subjugation.

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