[Speculative Vegetal Deconstruction] Artist book series
This artwork is a deconstruction of the vegetal being, is a unique piece fruit of a scientific-artistic research linked to the development of a doctoral thesis. It proposes a relational ecosystem between art and science, which is shaped through interactions with matter: direct, decomposed, represented and presented of the exotic- invasive species Eucalyptus globulus (I); Tradescantia fluminensis (II); Arundo donax (III); Phytolacca
americana (IV).
Artist book multitechnical and multisized. Expanded fields graphics proposals.
Compendium of content (of every piece):
– Photogravure of microvisualizations of plant matter and paper matter.
– Colored methacrylate engraved by laser cutting from the vectorized and simplified design of the internal structure of the leaves of the selected species.
– Laser engraving woodcutting.
– Original work in graphite and lettering.
– Light installation.
– Petri dish with encapsulated pigment.
– Organic ink in petri dish.
– Organic paper from IAS lasser cutted engraved.
(I) Technical information
Title: Deconstrucción vegetal especulativa I: Eucalyptus globulus
Year: 2023
Content size: 37 x 27 x 8 cm
(II) Technical information
Title Deconstrucción vegetal especulativa II: Tradescantia fluminensis
Year: 2024
Content size: 21.5 x 21.5 x 10 cm
(III) Technical information
Title Deconstrucción vegetal especulativa I: Phytolacca americana
Year: 2024
Content size: 34.5 x 25.5 x 3 cm
(IV) Technical information
Title Deconstrucción vegetal especulativa IV: Arundo donax
Year: 2024
Content size: 43 x 26 x 4.5 cm
This artwork is intended to generate a critical discourse towards the humanization of the plant being, its objectification and symbolism in the history of art, the socio-economic and political implications behind the concept of Exotic Invasive Species. All of this tinged by light, vegetation and the emotional poetics of the microscope, within a luminous and interactive box that brings us closer to the plant world, the micro-macro, the organic and the materiality of the support. Through the luminous interaction of matter in the form of encapsulated pigment, fatty inks, printed papers, botanical illustration, unfolded sheets, digitalizations of organic motifs engraved on colored methacrylate, scientific information and emotional reminiscences, we seek to shape a global meaning of the plant being by itself. The aim is to generate an interrelational system, a network of points of contact, lines of tension and conceptual vertices, through a deconstruction of the plant being that brings us closer to the idea of nature as a cultural construction.
