Close but Far
This work consists of an installation, made up of several glass houses with plant remains inside. These houses contain printed images of constellations suggesting the theme that heaven or the universe is our home. There are also impressions of texts by Pablo Neruda that refer to Nature.
Plant remains are placed inside the glass houses to demonstrate the fragility in which our natural resources are today, due to human abuses, resulting in a slow but progressive degradation of our environment, and therefore of our "home". I use recycled glass to support the idea of environmental caring.
In turn, the houses made of a material such as glass also show the fragility of the coexistence of families, human groups and also people who live alone. Today one third of the population of Europe lives alone. We are very well connected thanks to advances in technology, but that communication does not replace a look, a caress or a gesture in person. This piece made up of a set of houses simulating a community evidences the current social concept of "close but far", accentuated in the pandemic, in which we can generally connect virtually, but this does not always bring us close enough as necessary. Glass is fragile and can break easily, so it also represents the fragility of life or human relationships, as well as the idea that beautiful and valuable things can be destroyed or lost in an instant.
I use printed glass to make visible these two issues, environmental and human vulnerability. The installation takes these two themes and turns them into an object transforming words into a tangible body using a transparent material that invites us to see through it and reflect on these topics in a deeper and more human way.
"Our life is a crystal bed,and this life is made of glass,a crystal bed for the two of us."
