Daily build of landscape and war

Artist book / 2023 

16 illustrations made in watercolor and pencil, monotypes in ashes, knit in threads, interventions of fabrics and print texts.
Wood box lined with fabric and knitting with thread  (23 x 35 x 7 cm).
Writing machine over a wood table (40 x 40 x 75 cm). 

1. loom (25 x 100 cm, uniform type Wild cat) is made in wool.
2. 2 loom (25 x 100 cm, Uniform type Wood land) is made in pearl thread, ribbon, and veiled socks.
3. 3. (27 x 100 cm Uniform type Pixel) is made in wool.
4. loom (27 x 100 cm, uniform type Bicentennial Chameleon) is made in leather y bite tabaco

Daily build of landscape and war, is an artist book that researches the synchrony between the military uniform, the building of landscape and daily domestic practices of women into an arm conflict. As well the synchrony etymology among knitting and text.  The book tells a personal tale, tell a guerrilla attack on a kinder in 1990 in Tambo Cauca. The book joins together illustrations of uniforms in the last forty years and reflects the disjunction among the indoor home and the outward landscape.

Texts and knitting show the landscape such as a daily and constant built among human being and his surroundings that is changed and transformed by means of human practices. In the rural territories’ despite in Colombian cities the military costumes made part of the daily. The uniform has been consolidated from the physical conquest of the territory where it was founded.  It takes the natural resources by means of colors, patterns and symbolic elements to dominate and it work such as a device of power, it has symbolic flags that allude to physical control and the control of human practices in the territory including them that has been appoint to female sphere that they have been paradoxical are out of arm conflict.

Project selected by VII Encuentro de Investigación en Artes, Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigación en Artes ILIA, Guayaquil, Ecuador (2023).

https://www.uartes.edu.ec/sitio/encuentroilia/