Category: 2019
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A Study About Brugmansias
Exposition name: A Study About Brugmansias
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Garden of Hope
Exposition name: Garden of Hope
Type: San Francisco, Nayarit
Collaboration with: Neil Pyatt
Date: 2019
Description: Evolved into multiple living spaces during the LILHA Residency Program in Nayarit, Mexico, in 2019. Together with the local community of San Francisco, we revitalized four separate gardens through a collaborative planting process. Plants were gathered through donations and exchanges, with contributions from participants who responded to open calls to join the collective effort of planting and regeneration. -
Future Goddess
Exposition name: Future Goddesses
Type: Nano counter ADN reader.
Materials: Biotech
Date: 2019
Description: The Mayan legend of the Ololiuhqui or Xtabentún flower tells of two sisters: Xtabay, kind, generous, and misunderstood for her open-heartedness, and Utz-Colel, praised for her purity but inwardly cold and envious. When Xtabay died, her body released a sweet fragrance, and from it bloomed a delicate white flower—the sacred Xtabentún, used ritually by the Maya for its psychoactive seeds containing LSA. She became a compassionate goddess, guardian of desperate souls. Jealous, Utz-Colel vowed that a more beautiful flower would grow from her body. Upon her death, a stunning cactus appeared, but with a foul odor—the Tsacam, reflecting her true nature. Furious, she pleaded with the Lords of the Underworld and was allowed to return in Xtabay’s form, but as a demon. Since then, she appears beneath the Ceiba tree, luring intoxicated men into the underworld. The legend contrasts superficial virtue with genuine compassion and honors the spiritual power of love and generosity. -
American Goddesses Xtabay
Exposition name: American Goddesses Xtabay
Locations: Private Collection
Type: Paintings
Materials: Acrylic paint on cotton paper, Color pencil on paper, paintings and drawings, watercolor.
Dimensions: Multiple
Date: 2019 – 2020
Description: The Mayan legend of the Ololiuhqui or Xtabentún flower tells of two sisters: Xtabay, kind, generous, and misunderstood for her open-heartedness, and Utz-Colel, praised for her purity but inwardly cold and envious. When Xtabay died, her body released a sweet fragrance, and from it bloomed a delicate white flower—the sacred Xtabentún, used ritually by the Maya for its psychoactive seeds containing LSA. She became a compassionate goddess, guardian of desperate souls. Jealous, Utz-Colel vowed that a more beautiful flower would grow from her body. Upon her death, a stunning cactus appeared, but with a foul odor—the Tsacam, reflecting her true nature. Furious, she pleaded with the Lords of the Underworld and was allowed to return in Xtabay’s form, but as a demon. Since then, she appears beneath the Ceiba tree, luring intoxicated men into the underworld. The legend contrasts superficial virtue with genuine compassion and honors the spiritual power of love and generosity. -
Street Herbaries
Exposition name: Street Herbaries
Locations: Colombia y México: Bogotá, Pereira, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Cuernavaca, Nayarit, Ciudad de México, among others…
Type: Collection of vegetables samples, paintings and drawings.
Materials: Collage on paper dry part of plants, flowers and leafs
Dimensions: 21 cm x 28 cm & 1 m by 70 cm
Date: 2019 – 2020
Description: Explores the intersection of art, botany, and consciousness through a collection of vegetable samples, paintings, and drawings. The series Street Herbaries includes over 50 samples of entheogenic plants gathered from sidewalks in cities across Colombia and Mexico—Bogotá, Pereira, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Cuernavaca, Nayarit, and Mexico City—mounted on colored paper sheets (21 x 28 cm), produced between 2019 and 2020. Plants such as Brugmansia, Ginseng, Ipomoea, Argemone Mexicana, and the Lisergic Rose are featured. The work HER (2021) continues this exploration with a 1 x 0.70 m collage composed of dried plant parts, flowers, and leaves collected from the streets, arranged on paper as a reflection on psychotropical biodiversity and everyday botanical encounters.
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Artificial Paradises: Bad Flowers
Exposition name: Artificial Paradises: Bad Flowers
Location: Pedro Cano’s Workshop (QEPD) Milpa Alta, Mexico City
Type: Sculptures of flowers on vanished ceramics at high temperature
Dimensions: Variable dimensions between 15 cm by 7 cm to 23 cm by 17 cm
Producer: Pedro Cano (RIP)
Date: 2019 – 2020
Description: Bad Flowers is a ceramic sculpture series featuring flowers, peyotes, and snakes crafted in high-temperature glazed ceramics. Ranging from 15 x 7 cm to 23 x 17 cm, these pieces were produced between 2019 and 2020 at the late Pedro Cano’s workshop in Milpa Alta, Mexico City. -
Salvia Divinorum
Exposition name: Salvia Divinorum
Date: 2019 – 2020
Collaboration with: Gobelin Mexican Workshop
Lead: Jaime Ashida
Master Artisan: Abraham Flores
Dimensions: 2.40 meters by 2 meters
Material: Clay, ceramics & glass
Description: This tapestry, measuring 2.40 by 2 meters, was created between 2019 and 2020 in collaboration with the Gobelinos Mexicanos workshop in Guadalajara, Jalisco, under the direction of Jaime Ashida and woven on a vertical loom by master artisan Abraham Flores. Made entirely of natural wool, the piece is based on an original watercolor painting by myself and represents a collaboration with the studio, blending traditional textile craftsmanship with contemporary artistic expression.