Artist statement

i like to refer to my current practice as a melding of geographies, as an immigrant to scotland who works with materials from my native spain and my current home of glasgow fundamentally my work is about extraction of materials from the environment (coastal or urban) to construct bodies of work out the discarded, the buried under and the scrap of human existence. for years now i’ve been travelling back home to almeria, spain, where greenhouses power the economy of the region by covering it almost entirely in white plastics and exporting produce up north. i have collected some of these plastics, thrown away at the coast and transported them back home. in glasgow i then find structures of metal or wood that support these plastics to be imprinted with delicate fine grids onto them. these grids call back both to the work of Agnes Martin as well as the geographies of the greenhouses themselves. sometimes the plastics stand as structures of their own, further making a point about humanity’s impact on our soils, landscapes and neighbours

i’m currently working on expanding this body of work, experimenting with different structures and shapes but taking a long time to do so, to draw out the patience and perseverance of a practice that calls for quiet reflection. in a world that seems to move a little too quickly my work asks for a moment of silence and slows down. it rewards focused observation and discards the hasty, impatient viewer i like to think of my work as a continuous practice, boundaried though never-ending