NADA New York 2025

A vine emerges from the once woody base of a Dioscorea mexicana—both cast into metal—climbing through a styrofoam cup textured with a shallow, stylized echo of the xicalcoliuhqui, a stepped and spiraling motif rooted in Mesoamerican design. This ornamental pattern, replicated in a disposable object stripped of cosmology, becomes a symbol of repetition without remembrance. A cicada—a cyclical being that has witnessed the folding of time between past and present—remains still, patiently fixed to the meanings culture has imposed.

Continuing a practice that explores the porous boundaries between culture and the natural world, the sculpture reflects on the fragile entanglements between living beings and human debris. Here, growth and decay, artifice and memory, weave into each other: nature and artifact no longer stand opposed but fold into mutual becoming. In this topography of suspension and transformation, survival emerges from the ruins, insisting that life is always a collective negotiation.