Community Project
As an artist who has worked with the earth, I think of my evolution from Cholula in relation to the vernacular architecture of the places I visit and the vestiges of different moments in the history of their cultures. I seek to relate again with the will of the material: the earth. A material that is not only part of the architecture or an archaeological vestige, but also a pillar within a cultural fabric that gives us memory. Earth can sustain us and show us, in another way, a past and a future.
By placing a sculpture made of earth that relates to the architecture of its surroundings, it seeks to yield to the passage of time almost immediately, something that traditional architecture does not do. It also yields to the living will of the material with which it was built, and to its possibilities of housing, sustaining and letting go: the material, the transit, the growth of small plants. Circumstances that can be observed in certain organic architectures and respond cyclically to their context.
The proposal to make a bench that, over time, becomes a garden, seeks to ask the question: is the earth only good for building? It invites us to reflect on the waiting time, its permanence and its relationship with the life it can contain. In doing so, it also seeks to encourage construction with the tapial technique.
By placing a sculpture made of earth that relates to the architecture of its surroundings, it seeks to yield to the passage of time almost immediately, something that traditional architecture does not do. It also yields to the living will of the material with which it was built, and to its possibilities of housing, sustaining and letting go: the material, the transit, the growth of small plants. Circumstances that can be observed in certain organic architectures and respond cyclically to their context.
The proposal to make a bench that, over time, becomes a garden, seeks to ask the question: is the earth only good for building? It invites us to reflect on the waiting time, its permanence and its relationship with the life it can contain. In doing so, it also seeks to encourage construction with the tapial technique.
