A tongue that grooves,a hand
that hollows
(2025)
Ceramic texts on wall. Metepec clay, Glazed
earthenware, water. Variable sizes.
Drawing on the dust, a groove filled with rain, and the borders of a word that blurs. When one relocates, the tongue must learn other ways to say "agua", "casa", "each other". Hollowing the hand comes from the gesture of trying to hold something in the palm that will leak.
The lines of each module are proto-pipes, channels that connect broken words or the course of an imaginary river that cross some place. Made of porous clay, they will be filled with water and eventually lose their content.
Each module of this series has a title:
[Loss] lugares.
A tongue that grooves, a hand that hollows.
Lalengua.
Broken englishhh.