NADA New York 2025

A bronze Encyclia orchid, native to Mexico, rests atop a wooden post—elevated, immobilized, and rendered permanent. In transforming a living bloom into metal, the sculpture reflects on how botanical life is aestheticized, collected, and symbolically fixed. The work evokes the allure of the exotic, but also the mechanisms through which nature is framed, elevated, and contained—inviting reflection on the cultural desire to preserve, define, and possess the wild.