This installation is composed of five parts. The central piece is made up of a rue plant (ruta graveolens) encapsulated between two sheets of semi-transparent paper belonging to an old inventory book. At the bottom is its botanical name. The result is a recognizable but fuzzy image.
The plant was pressed, still fresh, in a press with other similar leaves placed on the front and the back. The result was embossing and a series of stains in the places where it contained more sap. As these spots and tracks move away from the plant, they take on different shapes and colors, until they disappear. The mounting is on the wall. The piece with the pressed plant is framed between two glasses and mounted on one of the sides to the wall. In this way, it allows us to see the verse and obverse.
On each side there are two of the embossments that arise from the first pressing, not only the formal mark of the plant remains but also part of its fluids, generating stains.
Connecting with plants as a dimension with its language and resources refers to experiences that are not apprehensible from merely rational and logical perspectives. On the one hand, herbs and plants are recognized, similarities are found with forms of representation used by the traditional botanical discipline, and on the other, affective memory, experience, and a certain disturbance of these known systems are contacted.
The copies seem to belong to another domain, that of painting, engraving, although the proximity to the original is present, the embossing and the stains leave room for something of the "formless", taking us to other territories of association.
This work is situated from a perspective that contemplates the possibility of glimpsing different knowledge appealing to make more flexible established frameworks of what is considered valid only from one point of view. The inclusion of other ways of accessing that knowledge generates tensions with various parameters that contemporary, urban and western life proposes to us. We could say that the connection and rootedness with the corporeity embodied in the plants show processes left aside and located in spaces depreciated by the system. These aspects can even be related to the question of how we make a body and value what is considered to know as issues related to a political subjectivity and the issue of the epistemological legitimation of what is situated between the tangible and intangible.