Graduate Show at the Affordable Art Fair in London; Water Lily Pond( 2010) for the Zona Maco Monterrey Art Fair and a garden at dawn( 2010) for the Alternativa Once Gallery in Monterrey, Mexico. These Paper Environments motivate a very unique perceptual experience that is bodily and spatial, peaceful and enjoyable.
More recently, I began to develop smaller installations and pieces building on former elements and introducing new resources such as detailed cutouts, mapped, and embossed images or text. My most recent project, Leaves of stars / Estrellas de la hierba, bonds miniature oblivious elements, mainly grass, with massive yet easily forgotten celestial bodies. For example, I overlapped the exact location of the stars beneath the grass beneath my feet as I stood in my studio, all on the same sheet of paper. Star mapping was achieved with the use of the Starwalk App, as well as other astronomical sky maps and photographs. I combined geography and literature alluding to human links with the Earth and sky:
bringing in fragments of Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of grass or Gaston Bachelard’ s Poetics of Space.
This last project widened the scope of my sculpture practice by introducing interdisciplinary elements capable of broadening the spatial sense of self that can be achieved through sculpture, and with it, the perceptual experience of life interdependence. At this point I attempt to further develop the use of such resources introducing a wider range of scientific information and poetics.
Estrellas de la hierba, 2013 www. LivingArtRoom. com / mariafernanda _ barrero