I arrived at Wabisabi without any prior idea of ​​what to do or investigate. I was very surprised by the natural and artificial ecosystem that had formed in the geography of the delta of a system of rivers that originate in tropical areas and flow into a temperate latitude with marked seasons. Endemic tropical vegetation is brought by the river and grows close to the ground along with local species. The water forms complicated systems of islands inhabited by small human settlements that built systems of adaptation, communication and transportation in the middle of streams, canals and rivers whose water level fluctuates daily between 20cm and 2.80m. This particular landscape begins by crossing the river in front of the Tigre station of the Buenos Aires railway system, which is only 50 minutes away by train from the city.

Understanding the role of water as an element of transportation in the place, I wondered:

Is the world ending here by dissolution?

What are the most permanent things amidst the movement of waters constantly dragging debris?

How to capture a bit of that landscape?

In my pocket I had a hole punch with which I tried to answer my questions. I used it to systematically extract "samples" of various local plants brought by the Paraná River from subtropical areas that manage to adapt to this temperate place, as well as others from trees typical of temperate areas that were experiencing autumn.

The pieces resulting from this experience represent the close connection that humans build with the landscape: they are made up of a gesture that I repeated day after day, consisting of going out to walk the paths of the island, hole-punching vegetation, and returning home to thread the cuts fast enough before the leaves lost their flat shape. The smell they preserve is undoubtedly an element that connects with a specific moment in the landscape of the particular mixed forest of this area of ​​the South American continent.

One of the unforeseen effects of this action was to have left traces in the vegetation that were preserved over time, unleashing the curiosity of the community to know what (or who) was leaving these little holes everywhere.

The topics of time, landscapes, disintegration and integration continue to be explored in my work today. See more on journal.

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