What still blooms / lo que aun florece
Sculptural Installation, 2026
Recycled school paper, encyclopedia pages, bed sheets, tablecloths and textile napkins, cotton thread, plastic bags, primed canvas, metal structure, electrical wire and steel cables.
Variable dimensions
What still blooms arises from an investigation into the silent ways of sustaining life: educating, caring, repairing, and transmitting knowledge. The installation is composed of hundreds of suspended elements made with paper recovered from school and domestic contexts – notebooks, encyclopedias, tablecloths, napkins and other reused materials – joined by threads, metal structures and cables that make up an aerial ecosystem.
The work proposes a journey under an organic mass that seems to expand
and transform continuously. From below, the viewer experiences the fragility of the materials and, at the same time, the resistance of the collective structure that sustains them. "I am interested in how objects associated with everyday life and care can acquire a new presence when they are articulated as a shared memory."
More than representing a garden, the installation works as a metaphor for what persists even in precarious conditions: affection, learning, support networks and the traces left by people who support others in an almost invisible way. In the Caribbean context, where vulnerability and the ability to adapt constantly coexist, the work raises a question about what knowledge and gestures continue to flourish despite wear and tear, abandonment or the passage of time.