Kavanayén: Niña buena niña mala (Becoming Tangible)
Kavanayén: Good Girl Bad Girl (Becoming Tangible) emerged from a large tree trunk found during a walk in Nicaragua, in the middle of an unusually absent rainy season.
The piece presents two opposing faces: one luminous and one darker, connected to different emotional memories between my mother and myself.
The title refers both to the idea of the “girl” and to the climate phenomenon El Niño, whose impact on climate and territory is becoming increasingly present within the Nicaraguan landscape.
Here, landscape stops being representation and becomes body, memory, and tangible matter shaped by emotional and environmental imbalance.
Kavanayén. Ponme tu flor. Río Orinoco. 2026 Gouache on ceramic 5.5 × 6 × 5 in 13 × 15 × 12 cm
Kavanayén: Ponme tu flor (Becoming Tangible)
Kavanayén expands beyond the pictorial surface, allowing landscape to take on physical presence.
Painted gestures migrate into objects that occupy space, activating a sensory encounter with memory and displacement.
Through this material shift, the imagined territory becomes something felt, inhabited, and real.
Kavanayén. Arbol caído. 2026. Found objects, dead branches, acrylic made in Mexico. 16 × 7.5 × 5 in 40 × 19 x 12 cm
Kavanayén: Árbol Caído (Becoming Tangible)
A fallen tree is not just a form—it is the violence of tree cutting made visible.
Branches, collected from the streets of Mexico, return as fragments of what once lived.
Landscape becomes object: something you can stand before, something you can feel.
Kavanayén. Light my journey. (Zara y su mamá en el Arca de Noé). 2026. Found object and acrylic made in Mexico. 18 × 30 × 25 in 46 × 12 × 10 cm
Kavanayén: Light my journey (Zara and her mother in Noah’s Ark) (Becoming Tangible)
A found lamp is not just an object—it is a small act of survival made visible.
Mother and daughter reach for each other without touching, holding distance, care, and longing at once.
Light becomes landscape: something that stays on, something that quietly shows the way home.
Kavanayén. Un trocito de mi árbol. 2026. Found object and acrylic made in Mexico. 15 × 16 × 18 in 37 × 16 × 18 cm
Kavanayén: Un trocito de mi árbol (Becoming Tangible)
A tree was cut. It couldn’t defend itself. This is what’s left.
A fragment carrying the violence we choose not to see.
Not debris—something that still matters. Still here. Still asking to be seen.