Event Horizon or Geology of Friendship
Project
Technique
Sand, cement, fabrics, among others
Dimensions
Variables
Year
2018-2024
Technique
Sand, cement, fabrics, among others
Dimensions
Variables
Year
2018-2024
Project
What is a horizon? The question seems simple but condenses countless poetic relationships within itself. In the most intuitive and scientific sense, a horizon is that line that divides the earth from the sky, that linear separation that gives meaning to down and up. We know we are not in the sky because we see that thin division and because gravity, like a heavy force, literally keeps our feet on the ground.
When I started this work, both conceptually and visually, a specific concern afflicted me: How is time measured in geology and friendship? Thanks to my best friend, a geologist by profession, I understood that in both geology and friendship, time is measured by events, occurrences, and happenings.
This project, born as a quest towards friendship, has taken on different plastic manifestations over time and its material variations are still evolving. Is it still a work about friendship? Absolutely; that character has never been lost and never will be. However, it is also a quest to balance the materiality of rock and sand, and my friendship with my best friend, José David.
I am still wondering: What is the materiality of our relationship as friends?
