Title: Litos Liquen
Artist: Paula Flores
Year: 2018
Variable dimensions on the rest
Exhibited at: CECUT Centro Cultural Tijuana
Description
Symbiotic, parasitic, antagonistic relationships and casual encounters.
What is the relationship of the urban population with nature?
How much do we take these organisms into account in our daily lives?
In a growing city like Tijuana. We can observe how the land, still alive, is used as private property for unsustainable construction.
Tijuana being a young city we could take the opportunity to innovate and create a habitat where not only people can exist freely. Trying to be human beings implies being conscious and respectful with all forms of life. Learning to cohabit as all other beings do. Our constructions are built on large extensions of land which is brutally removed and extracted. Hills are cut down without consideration of the modification of the natural landscape. Regardless of the implications that these actions may have for the rest of the natural context.
The microorganisms that inhabit the soil are immensely essential to the rich growth of biodiversity that we can observe above ground. Like all contributors to a cycle, their existence and well-being is essential to all.
Feeling responsible and contributing to a cycle allows us to feel connected in many ways, emotionally, cerebrally and spiritually, meaning that we belong to something greater than the pure existence of people.
Like microorganisms, stones and other beings that inhabit them are essential for the creation of the soil.
They prepare thousands of years in advance so that future generations of other plants will have fertile soil in which to be born and live. This makes me think of the consciousness of the future that plants have.