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ON WAX 🖤🤍 A world of relationships— is a

ON WAX
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A world of relationships— is a project I have been developing following my visit to Ghana West Africa.
For this project I have extracted motifs from African Wax Prints and combine them with Black & white patterns inspired from traditional African weaving. While weaving patterns symbolize a common language across global human cultures, the complex history of African Wax prints reflect both colonial exploitation and African cultural resilience.
The choice of motifs aims to include humans and non-humans. All motifs have been digitally transformed and combined into new narratives to reflects on the entanglement of our world and the dynamic of relationships between global north and global south. The project experiments with the practice of deconstruction and hybridization as creative catalyst in art making and how they foster shift of perspectives.
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Being is a state of perpetual change and what I call creolization is the very sign of that change. In creolization, you can change, you can be with the other, you can change with the other while
being yourself, you are not one, you are multiple, and you are yourself. You are not lost, because you are multiple. You are not broken apart, because you are multiple. Edouard Glissant (2009)rard
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The project is also a collective art laboratory open to a diverse global community to reflect on the subject of cultural appropriation and cultural hybridization through the art of collage and poetry.
Interested to know more about the project or participate, and for details on the origin and history of these motifs, visit the project page in Bio.
#collageart #collageartist #mixedmediaartwork #mixedmediaart #hybridart #stopmotion #edouardglissant #hybridization #northsouth #blackandwhite #patterns #africanwaxprint #wax #waxonwax

ON WAX 🖤🤍 A world of relationships— is a

ON WAX
🖤🤍
A world of relationships— is a project I have been developing following my visit to Ghana West Africa.
For this art based research project project I have extracted motifs from African Wax Prints and combine them with black & white patterns inspired from traditional African weaving. While weaving patterns symbolize a common language across global human cultures, the complex history of African Wax prints reflect both colonial exploitation and African cultural resilience.
In this post I am presenting the library of patterns I am working with.
In many cultures, black and white evoke the balance of opposing yet interdependent forces: masculine & feminine, acting & being, light & shadow. In African cosmologies, they are seen as complementary rather than oppositional.
In Yoruba tradition, they are associated with Eshu — the trickster god, messenger between heaven and earth— and the necessary coexistence of opposites.
In today’s world “whiteness” represents an anthropocentric vision of the world that relies on control, hierarchy,
domination, power, success, and exploitation, while “blackness”— as Bayo Akomolafé and other black thinkers
propose—stands for non-anthropocentric alternative modes of being that celebrate multiplicity, difference,
interdependence, and connection to the land, embodying indigenous, syncretic, creole, fugitive and hybrid
ways of living.
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The project is also a collective art laboratory open to a diverse global community to reflect on the subject of cultural appropriation and cultural hybridization through the art of collage and poetry.
Interested to know more about the project or participate, and for details on the origin and history of these motifs, visit the project page link in bio
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#collageart #collageartist #hybridart #mixedmedia #analogdigital #artbasedresearch #expressivearts #africanwaxprint #africanwax #postactivism #blackness #whiteness #colonialism#neocolonialism #waxon #blackandwhite #patterns #fugitive

ON WAX A world of relationships— is a project I

ON WAX
A world of relationships— is a project I have been developing following my visit to Ghana West Africa.
For this art based research project project I have extracted motifs from African Wax Prints and combine them with black & white patterns inspired from traditional African weaving. While weaving patterns symbolize a common language across global human cultures, the complex history of African Wax prints reflect both colonial exploitation and African cultural resilience.
The choice of motifs aims to include humans and non-humans. All motifs have been digitally transformed and combined into new narratives to reflects on the entanglement of our world and the dynamic of relationships between global north and global south.
This research experiments with the practice of deconstruction and hybridization as creative catalyst in art making and how they foster shift of perspectives.
The project is also a collective art laboratory open to a diverse global community to reflect on the subject of cultural appropriation and cultural hybridization through the art of collage and poetry.
Interested to know more about the project or participate, and for details on the origin and history of these motifs, visit the project page link in bio
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In this post I am presenting the library of motifs I am working with.
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#collageart #collageartist #hybridart #mixedmedia #analogdigital #artbasedresearch #expressivearts #africanwaxprint #africanwax #postactivism #blackness #whiteness #colonialism#neocolonialism #waxon #blackandwhite #patterns

“What goes around, comes around” Stop Motion V

“What goes around, comes around”
Stop Motion Video Collage
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Analogue/digital Sketch Book Pages from my research project “ON WAX: A world of relationships”
exploring how the practices of deconstruction & hybridization are catalysts in the creative process.
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The African influence on the evolution of music composition worldwide has shape countless genres and musical traditions. African rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic traditions have been carried across the globe through the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, migration, and cultural exchange. African music is characterized by complex polyrhythms, syncopation, and call-and-response structures. These rhythmic patterns became foundational to numerous musical traditions, particularly in the Americas and the Caribbean, and today, they are seamlessly woven into contemporary music production across the world.
This cultural diffusion exemplifies a dynamic process of hybridization, where African musical elements blend with indigenous traditions to create entirely new forms of expression. From jazz, blues, and samba to hip-hop, Afrobeats, and electronic music, these genres emerged through creative experimentation and improvisation. In music hybridization, deconstruction and recombination of materials, motifs, traditions and ideas fuel creativity.

“The arts created by the blacks of the diaspora, contrary to
what’s believed, are not indigenous to them; they are arts
of mixture, of adjustment to situations. What’s fantastic about jazz is that there’s an African music that expresses itself through the piano, which is an instrument that Beethoven uses, and as a result there’s an incredible beat, and if you think about it, the same thing
applies to most of the other areas.” Edouard Glissant 2009

In the ON WAX project I deconstruct, transform hybridize reconstruct African Wax prints motifs into new narratives.
Music by @hagan_uk & @gafacci
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#hybrid #hybridart #videocollage #stopmotion #collageart #deconstruction #postmodern #afrobeats #edouardglissant #rhizome

Identity as collage Hybrid art & hybrid cultures

Identity as collage
Hybrid art & hybrid cultures

Analogue/digital Sketch Book Pages from my art based research project “On wax: Deconstructing the language of African Wax prints”
Investigating how the practices of deconstruction & hybridization shift perspectives in the creative process.

Hybridity highlights the « in-between » spaces where cultures intersect, merge, and transform. Colonialism, migrations, and globalization have been shaping hybrid identities through encounters, adaptations, and resistances. The interweaving of histories, traditions, and innovations produce fluid, porous identities. These hybrid identities embody the tension and creativity of navigating multiple cultural influences.

In our globalised world hybrid art forms are arising from the fusion of disciplines, styles, influences and cultures nourishing from heterogeneity, multimodality and juxtaposition, combining and recombining the existing into multiple new possibilities, new narratives & new aesthetics.
Hybrid art reflects a rhizomatic structure: interconnected, non-linear, and ever-expanding. Hybridity is an ongoing process—a constant becoming that mirrors life’s own evolution. Rhizomes grow unpredictably, without a clear hierarchy or center, resembling how identities and cultural practices evolve today.
For post modern philosophers like Derrida, Deleuze & Guattari, identities and cultures are never fixed but always in flux, constantly in evolution, hybridizing, in a state of becoming, never fully resolved.

#hybrid #hybridart #deconstruction #evolution #analogdigital #artbasedresearch #collageart #identity #multiculture #decolonizing #rhizome #metissage #africanwax #africanwaxprint #postmodern #globalization #derrida #deleuze #guattari #artphilosophy

ART as GIFT Analogue/digital visuals from my 2024

ART as GIFT
Analogue/digital visuals from my 2024 “on Wax” Project Sketch Book.

One of the questions running through my “on Wax” project is exploring how art may free itself and ourselves from the incarceration of productivity, exploitation and consumerism?
My journey to Ghana west Africa and deconstructed motifs from African Wax Prints are providing the context of reflection for this art based research.

In expressive arts we see the arts as our original language to be claimed or reclaimed and made accessible to all. Art becomes a gift to ourself and to our community, a space for inquiry and discovery, a space where to explore cracks, thresholds, and unknown territories, a space to dialogue with the living world around us, a space to relate, connect and share with humans and non- humans, a gateway to experience and immerse in the complex relational continuum of the world we are embedded in.
In my research I draw from the triangular dynamic practice of artist/researcher/teacher known as a/r/tography. “a/r/tographers are inhabitants of an in-between borderlands where they re-create, re-search, re-learn, ways of understanding and representing the world. They experience with a metissage of knowing, doing and making, and with aesthetic experiences found in the flow between intellect, feeling & practice.’ (Rita Irwin 2004)
In this practice art becomes a circulating gift between forms of aesthetics, between forms of thoughts, between ideas and between people.

During my stay in Kumasi Ghana, I met with professor karî’kạchä seid’ou , inspirational artist / researcher / teacher, head of the Art Department of the University of #Kumasi #Ghana, founder of the @blaxTARLINES and the Emancipatory Art Teaching Project. Together with the artists & students from his community, he investigates “how to transform art from commodity to gift, how to liberate and explore the universal and anagrammatic potential of art”.
More in comments…

#artasgift #analogdigital #borderlands #artbasedresearch #artography #expressivearts #postmodern #postmodernart #collageart #postactivism #postcolonialism #ecofeminism #giftsociety #hybridart #deconstruction #sketchbook #artjournal

Memories of the future: Speculative fabulations on

Memories of the future:
Speculative fabulations on the future of the Prickly Pear cactus & the Cochineal insect.
A series of artworks that blends artificial intelligence, with digital & analogue creation.
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Inspired by Donna Haraway”s book “Staying with the trouble”
the project dives deep into this interspecies contact zone and tentacular research,
weaving art, history, ecology & activism to shift perspective on ecological issues.
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Here a selection of the artworks, limited edition giclee prints framed with museum glass.
The exhibition is still on for a few more weeks, @cancristofolibiza open Tuesday to Saturday 10am-4pm
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And you can get your basket of organic vegetables & flower bouquet from the farm 💐
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#ecoart #ibizaart #ibizaartist #analogdigital #mixedmediaart #aiart #nopal #chumbera #pricklypearcactus #cochineal #interspecies #stayingwiththetrouble #sf #speculativeevolution #surrealart #surealism #ibizanature #digitalart #ecology #hybridart

A short extract of my presentation of the artistic

A short extract of my presentation of the artistic project
Memories of the future:
Speculative fabulations on the future of the Opuntiae cactus & the Cochineal insect.
A series of artworks that blends artificial intelligence, with digital & analogue creation.
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Inspired by Donna Haraway”s book “Staying with the trouble”
the project dives deep into this interspecies contact zone through tentacular thinking,
weaving art, history, ecology & activism to shift our perspective to ecological issues.
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Hosted by @cancristofolibiza
With the support of @sos_cochichumbas
& @canpurtell
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The exhibition is still on for a few more weeks, open Tuesday to Saturday 10am-4pm
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And you can also get your basket of organic vegetables & flower bouquet from the farm 💐
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#stayingwiththetrouble #donnaharaway #interspecies #ecoart #nopal #pricklypearcactus #chumbera #ecology #history #ibizanature #ibizaart #speculativeevolution #ibizaartist

A reel from the opening of the exhibition Memorie

A reel from the opening of the exhibition
Memories of the future:
Speculative fabulations on the future of the Opuntiae cactus & the Cochineal insect
@cancristofolibiza last Wednesday
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An interspecies project that blends artificial intelligence, digital & analogue creation, weaving art, history, ecology & activism.
A big thank you to all that have been part of this truly inspiring community project:
🌵Dean @cancristofolibiza for beautiful space in the heart of Ibiza
🌵Jessica @canpurtell for co-curating together this program and sharing your ecological expertise
🌵Eliana & Liz from our collective @sos_cochichumbas
🌵Elki @nopalerasassions for sharing your knowledge & spirit
🌵Joanna @theatreoftheancient for embodying the figure of the “payesa” in the living tableau performance
🌵And thank you to all who joined us during this week exploring the fascinating history & ecology of the Prickly Pear Cactus !!
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The show is still on for a few more weeks, you can visit Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm
and get your basket of organic vegetables 🥦 and flowers 💐 from the farm 🌈
DM for more info about the work
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#aiart #digitalart #digitalanalog #mixedmediaart #activism #artactivism #ecology #interspecies #communityart #artecontemporanea #contemporaryart #stayingwiththetrouble
#ibizaartist #nopal #pricklypearcactus
#ecoart #ibizaart #chumbera #ibizanature #opuntia #cochineal

Dear Art & Nature lovers of Ibiza 🌸🌵🌸 We

Dear Art & Nature lovers of Ibiza
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We would like to invite to a very special private event next week taking place in a private ecological community farm @cancristofolibiza
and aiming to raise awareness about our beautiful PRICKLY PEAR cactus in crisis.  Through art, history & agriculture we will explore the past, present & future of this truly amazing plant.

This is an inspiring collaboration between
Jessica @canpurtell & Roseline @roselinedethelin
together with
Elki @nopalerasessions
Vicent @palermet
Eliana & Liz @sos_cochichumbas
with the support of  Dean @cancristofolibiza and @apaeef

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The artist @roselinedethelin from the @sos_cochichumbas collective will be presenting an extended version of her project Memories of the Future: speculative fabulations on the future of the #opuntia cactus.

The opening of the exhibition is  ✨Wednesday 6th of November from 6 to 10pm
✨presentation of the work at 8pm
✨performance at 8.30pm in collaboration with @theatreoftheancients & @stanislove
✨presence of the art collective @Sos_Cochichumbas.  🌸🌵🌸 Friday 8th of November from 6 to 9pm we will have an historical talk with experts on the cultural significance & uses of the Prickly Pear cactus in Eivissa & Mexico with Vicent @palermet & Elki @nopalerasessions moderated by Jessica @canpurtell Followed by conversations around warm soup. 
🌸🌵🌸 Saturday 9th of November
✨From 10 to 11am we will offer a demo of how to clean and care for the Prickly Pear cactus.
✨From 11.30am to 1.30pm Roseline will offer an art & creation workshop to explore the theme of “speculative ecological fabulations” through collage and storytelling.

These are all private events with limited space & guests list, if you would like to join us we love to welcome you but please DM asap @roselinedethelin
 🌸🌵🌸 And on Sunday 10th of November we will be part of the Feria ecologica in San Jordi with more talks & workshops around the multi uses of the Prickly Pear cactus.
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Check our full program English/ castellano in the post & contact us to join! we hope to see you there ✨✨✨

#ecoart #ibizanature #chumbera #pricklypear #extinction #nopal #natureculture #eivissa #ecology

Dear Art & Nature lovers 🌸🌵🌸 We would lik

Dear Art & Nature lovers
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We would like to invite to a very special private event next week taking place in the ecological farm Can Cristofol to raise awareness about our beautiful PRICKLY PEAR cactus in crisis.  Through art, history & agriculture we will explore the past, present & future of this truly amazing plant.
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The artist @roselinedethelin from our collective will be presenting an extended version of her project Memories of the Future, that blends analogue and digital art with artificial intelligence to shift ecological narratives. The collective will be present as well through video & informative panels.

The opening of the exhibition is ✨Wednesday 6th of November from 6 to 10pm ✨ with a presentation of the work at 8pm and a performance at 8.30pm✨
We will also present the work of the art collective Sos Cochichumbas. This is a private event with limited space, if you would like to join please DM @roselinedethelin
 🌸🌵🌸 Friday 8th of November from 6 to 9pm we will have an historical talk with experts on the cultural significance & uses pf the Prickly Pear cactus in Eivissa & Mexico with Vicent @palermet & Elki @nopalerasessions moderated by Jessica @canpurtell
En Castellano & Ingles This is a private event with limited space, if you would like to join please DM @roselinedethelin

🌸🌵🌸 Saturday 9th of November
✨From 10 to 11am we will offer a demo of how to clean and care for the Prickly Pear cactus. Open to all.
✨From 11.30am to 1.30pm Roseline will offer an art & creation workshop to explore the theme of “speculative ecological fabulations” through collage and storytelling. Spaces are limited for the workshop, please DM her to participate @roselinedethelin
 🌸🌵🌸 And on Sunday 10th of November we will be part of the Feria ecologica de Eivissa Y Formentera in San Jordi with more talks & workshop around the multi uses of the Prickly Pear cactus. 🌸🌵🌸
Contact us for more details! I hope to see you there ✨✨✨

#chumbera #nopal #pricklypear #pricklypearcactus #ecoart #ibizanature #ibizaeco #eivissa #ibizaart #ibizaartist #artcollective #history #agriculture

Memories of the future: 🌵Speculative fabulatio

Memories of the future:
🌵Speculative fabulations on the future of the Opuntia cactus 🌵
What if the Opuntia cactus / prickly pear / would play a central role in our future?
This question inspired me to create these surreal landscapes using a hybrid of artificial intelligence, digital and analogue manipulation, in which the Opuntia Cactus and its many generated hybrids cactus are the main protagonist of an imagined future of our planet.
For Donna Haraway (Staying with the trouble 2026), speculative fabulation, is a type of “narration” that enables one to unfold new worlds through arousing an appetite for what’s possible, and the proliferating SFs (speculative fiction, situated feminisms, string figures) are important practices in research and everyday life. Rooted in storytelling practices, speculative fabulation defamiliarizes, queers perception, and disrupts habitual ways of knowing. Although speculative fabulations are fabulations, that does not mean they are incompatible with science facts. We need speculative thought to help us to imagine other configurations and stimulate knowledge making.

In these Reels I am sharing a new series of mysterious surrealist Opuntia landscapes (yet not published).

The collective of artists @Sos_cochichumbas wants to raise awareness on the disappearance of the prickly pear cactus on our island and on the main land due to a plague of cochineal.

#chumbera #nopal #ecoart #ecology #anthropocene #pricklypear #nopal #aiart #hybridart #activistart #ibizaart #cactus #opuntia #ibizanature #naturelovers #speculativefabulations #queer #queerfeminism #storytelling #donnaharaway #aiart #digitalart #surrealism

Memories of the future: Speculative fabulations o

Memories of the future:
Speculative fabulations on the future of the Opuntia cactus
What if the Opuntia cactus / prickly pear / would play a central role in our future?
This question inspired me to create these surreal landscapes using a hybrid of artificial intelligence, digital and analogue manipulation, with the aim of fostering new narratives and shifts in perspective in the face of ecological issues. “We need new stories that do not induce paralysis but invigorate imagination and encourage action” (#donnaharaway #annatsing)

The Opuntia cactus, or Nopal, is originally from Central America where it is considered an amazingly resourceful plant by Indigenous population. A great source of food for both humans and animals, rich in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, it is a natural anti- inflammatory and is used in traditional medicine to treat wounds, digestive issues, and diabetes. It can purify water and be planted in association with other plants to keep moisture and avoid soil erosion. Its fibres and mucilage glue can be used for construction, the fabrication of ropes and adobe. Today it is also used to create vegan leather.
The Opuntia cactus can reproduce itself through through self pollination as well as vegetative reproduction with just one of its pads directly rooting in the soil. It can hybridise with many other cactus species, spreading as hundreds of different varieties. Since the 16th century the Opuntia cactus has been imported and introduce to all continents to breed the precious red carmine cochineal, but its many uses are mainly unknown. Today its disappearance from our island is truly an ecological loss.

In these Reels I am sharing new surrealist landscapes yet not published, in which the prickly pear cactus is hybridising with many other cacti, reshaping the landscapes of our planet.

The collective of artists @Sos_cochichumbas wants to raise awareness on the disappearance of the prickly pear cactus on our island and on the main land due to a plague of cochineal.

#chumbera #ecoart #ecology #anthropocene #pricklypear #nopal #aiart #hybridart #activistart #ibizaart #cactus #opuntia #ibizanature #naturelovers #digitalart #cactuslove

Memories of the future: Speculative fabulations on

Memories of the future: Speculative fabulations on the future of the Opuntia cactus
What if the Opuntia cactus / prickly pear / would play a central role in our future?
This question inspired me to create “speculative fabulations” surreal landscapes from a hybrid of artificial intelligence, digital and analogue manipulation, with the aim of fostering new narratives and shifts in perspective in the face of ecological issues. We need new stories that do not induce paralysis but instead invigorate imagination and encourage action (#donnaharaway #annatsing)
In these Reels I am sharing some new surrealist landscapes yet not published, in which the prickly pear cactus is hybridising with many other cacti, reshaping the landscapes of our planet.

This on going project is part of the action of the collective of artists @Sos_cochichumbas to raise awareness on the disappearance of the prickly pear cactus on our island and on the main land due to a plague of cochineal.

#ecoart #ecology #ecopoiesis #anthropocene #chumbera #pricklypear #nopal #aiart #midjourney #hybridart #newnarrative #ibizaart #ibizaartists #ibizanature #artcollective #artactivism
#speculativefabulation #speculativeevolution #surrealism #surreallandscape

Saturated layers of multiplicity Makola Market –

Saturated layers of multiplicity
Makola Market – Ghanaian series
Digital play
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African wax prints are one of the multiple layers from Ghanaian culture I am exploring in this project.
Among the multiplicity of influences in the Makola market of Accra, African wax prints stand as an intriguing example of hybridization. The history of African wax prints is intricately weaved with colonialism and capitalism. It can be traced back to Indonesia and its hand-made batiks using hot wax designs and dying processes. The Dutch copied & industrialized this technique to produce their first batch of wax print in 1850. Since then millions of meters of “African Wax Prints” have been designed and sold to African countries becoming part of the African culture and identity. For more than a century, western designers have been creating collections of Wax Prints, mixing traditional Indonesian and Indian patterns with African patterns, colours, symbols and iconography, as well African history. Today we question the fact that these beautiful colourful designs could be a form of cultural appropriation born from this hybridization of techniques and influences. The Wax Prints have become such a part of the African culture that African themselves believe them to be African which is also deeply questioning the concept of identity.
The success of the wax print relied on the local market women who named the prints according to African traditions. They took control of the distribution on the continent influencing the designs. Market women or their clients would give a spontaneous name to a new design. The cloth then becomes a vehicle for messages, wearing them can be the expression of a romantic feeling, of an infatuation or of a political statement. This naming of the wax prints could be seen as a form of cultural re-appropriation.
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#waxprint #digitalart #collageart #culturalappropriation #hybridart #neocolonialism #capitalism #makolamarket

Saturated layers of multiplicity “Life is not a

Saturated layers of multiplicity
“Life is not a straight path” reel
Makola Market – Ghanaian series
Digital play
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In this super-imposition of layers, the black and white patterns suggest both my questioning of the history of exchanges between global north and global south, as well as the language of cloth and weaving. Patterns are the fabric of life and they are reflected in the art of weaving in all cultures across time and space. The symbolism of the loom could be seen as a space where polarities meet. The cross intersection between the warp and the weft is a universal symbol of human existence.
The verticality of the warp stands for the connection between past & future, earth & sky, body & spirit, evolution. While the horizontality of the weft suggests our connections to the world, the others, our community, giving & receiving, our shared human experience, the play of patterns in the fabric of life.
Weaving becomes a metaphor to understand the working of the universe and our place in it and our interconnectedness. Our ever evolving identities, the fabric of our being, are weaved from past to future by all the encounters and experiences on our life journey.
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The relationships between global north and global south is such a difficult subject to understand. As a white privilege artist traveling through Ghana I could only experience a deep shift in my perspective. Looking at the world from this land was giving me a vivid sense of the rippling effects of colonialism, post colonialism, neo-colonialism, capitalism, and the intricate weaving of cultural, economic and ecologic inter-dependencies of our global world.
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In this reels I use traditional weaving patterns from Ghana, this one, the zig zag is called NMKYIMMKYIM, and its meaning is “life is not a straight path…”
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🎼Agenda from Bryte & Branch, an hybrid of Ghanaian highlife & Portuguese underground
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#digitalart #layers #collageart #collage #superimpose #saturation #northsouth #ghana #makola #weaving #patterns #hybrid #hybridart #identities #fabricoflife #patterns #fairtrade #culturalexchange #momentsintime
#ibizaart #ibizaartist #canart #multiculture

Saturated Layers of Multiplicity ✨Makola Market

Saturated Layers of Multiplicity
✨Makola Market – Ghanaian series
Digital play
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Themes of hybridisation, multiplicity, differences and identity have been omni present while traveling through Ghana, West Africa, this winter.
Postmodern philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s defends the idea that there is no such thing as “fixed” identity, rather life is an ongoing expression of multiplicity and differences, a constant becoming or birthing into our next metamorphosis, allowing a diversity of voices and identities to keep emerging.
Trying to grasp the complex cultural multiplicity in Ghana, the Makola market in Accra became a field of inspiration. All around the world traditional market places have been for centuries emblematic of the aliveness of our multiplicity, a self-organized space where humans meet to exchange and nourish from the diversity of their craftsmanship and creative inventiveness.
Makola market is a tentacular labyrinthine organism in which one immerse to be saturated with an overdose of colours, shapes, smells, people, sounds. Makola’s landscape is constantly morphing and moving, while some shops are fixed in concrete walls acting as landmarks, others are mounted and dismounted every day with makeshift structures, whilst many vendors are walking around carrying their goods on their heads and bodies.
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In this reel I manipulate and superimpose layers of video shots from Accra Market with traditional black & white weaving patterns….
This traditional pattern is called NKYEMFRE NHYEHYEHOO and symbolizes a broken pot pieced back together and the art of handling difficult situations.
More about these patterns in my next post.
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Music Sakila by @gafacci a very cool Ghanaian musician, composer, producer who hybrids traditional rhythms with a multiplicity of sounds and influences.
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#digitalart #digitalcollage #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #collageartist #multiplicity #identity #difference #mixculture #hybrid #hybridart #ghana #makola #makolamarket #accra #ibiza #ibizaartist #artcurators #artobsession #artresearch #deleuze #postmodern #postmodernart

Liberation
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Mixed media 60 x 60 cm
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Ascension
Portal
Equinox
Eclipse
Ultimate transformation
Life & death
Day & night
Journey of the soul
Ashes to ashes
Eternity
Heaven & earth
Lightscape
Infinity
Other realms
Immortality
In memoriam
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For my dear friend Ali who passed away on the 22/03
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#portal #ascension #souljourney #equinox #eclipse #lifedeath #heaven #eternity #liberation #ashestoashes #transformation #lightscape #skysea #inmemoriam #immortality #mixedmediaart #stopmotion #collageart #collageartist #ibizaart #ibizaartist #ibiza2024

Black moon & birds series Acrylic on paper Studies

Black moon & birds series
Acrylic on paper
Studies
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Horizon
Spaciousness
Limitless
Timeless
Stillness
Liberation
Eternity
Immensity
Fly away
Journey of the soul
Lightscapes
Skyscape
Ephemeral
Letting go
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#expressivepainting #expressiveart #horizon #sky #skyscape #seasky #flight #eternity #spaciousness #acrylicpainting #textures #souljourney #artlovers #artobsession #artoftheday #ibizaart #ibizaartist #ibiza2024 #lightscape

Constellation ✨🪐✨ Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60

Constellation
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Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 cm
Cosmic clock
Gate
Moment in time
Patterns
Magnetic forces
Dynamic relationships
Landscape
Infinity
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A constellation is a group of stars forming a dynamic pattern of magnetic forces , it also means the dynamic of relationships within a group.
I channeled this work during our Just paint intensive creation workshop guiding a beautiful group of 6 creators.
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#constellation #expressivepainting #surrealism #surrealart #contemporaryart #channeling #magneticfield #pattern #infinity #patterns #gate #creativeprocess #artworkshop #contemporarypainting #abstractfigurativepainting #artobsession #artlovers #ibizaart #ibizaartist

Just a few spaces left to join the ANALOGUE - DIGI

Just a few spaces left to join the
ANALOGUE - DIGITAL
Intensive Creation Workshop
22 to 26 May @ my studio in Ibiza
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The workshop weaves live painting, collage, mask making, creative writing, sound/voice and performance with photography, video and a range of digital tools to create multi media artworks.
Participants will learn how to use a choice of apps (on smartphone & tablets) to create digital collages, animation, video edits & effects, sound collages.
I will facilitate together with digital artist
@mischartibiza ♥️♥️
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Check the link in BIO for all the details.
DM to apply now. Still early bird for a few more days!!
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#analoguedigital #digitalcollage #videoart #digitalcreation #soundcollage #digitalart #artworkshop #artretreat #ibiza2024 #ibizaart #videocreation #creativeworkshop #creativity #expressivearts #artlovers

Just a few spaces left to join the ANALOGUE - DIGI

Just a few spaces left to join the
ANALOGUE - DIGITAL
Intensive Creation Workshop
22 to 26 May @ my studio in Ibiza
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The workshop weaves live painting, collage, mask making, creative writing, sound/voice and performance with photography, video and a range of digital tools to create multi media artworks.
Participants will learn how to use a choice of apps (on smartphone & tablets) to create digital collages, animation, video edits & effects, sound collages.
Will facilitate together with digital artist @mischartibiza ♥️♥️
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Check the link in BIO for all the details.
DM to apply now. Still early bird for a few more days!!
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#analoguedigital #digitalart #digitalcollage #videoart #artvideo #soundcollage #artworkshop #artworkshops #ibizaart #ibiza2024 #expressivearts #creativeworkshop #creativity #creation #artlovers

Just a few spaces left to join the ANALOGUE - DIGI

Just a few spaces left to join the
ANALOGUE - DIGITAL
Intensive Creation Workshop
22 to 26 May @ my studio in Ibiza
✨✨✨
The workshop weaves live painting, collage, mask making, creative writing, sound/voice and performance with photography, video and a range of digital tools to create multi media artworks.
Participants will learn how to use a choice of apps (on smartphone & tablets) to create digital collages, animation, video edits & effects, sound collages.
I will facilitate together with digital artist
@mischartibiza ♥️♥️
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Check the link in BIO for all the details.
DM to apply now. Still early bird for a few more days!!
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#analoguedigital #digitalcollage #videoart #digitalcreation #soundcollage #digitalart #artworkshop #artretreat #ibiza2024 #ibizaart #videocreation #creativeworkshop #creativity #expressivearts #artlovers

Children of the now are you longing for love or fo

Children of the now are you longing for love or for freedom?
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The ballad of independency - Timescapes Series
Digital painting portraits inspired by photographic work from artist #nangoldin reflecting on the different languages men and women speak as well as the raw density of life in the 80s.
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How do we navigate this tension between love and freedom today?
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Thank you to those who answered on my story… it was great to read your different views.
Someone said “Love is freedom”… someone else “I can only love when I am free” … what would you say ?
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I personally enjoy not having a fixed answer, pondering on it, chewing on it, or having a different answer each day …

#digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalcollage #collageart #cutandpaste #collagecollective #collageartist #80s #love #freedom #koan #questionoftheday #poetsofinstagram #artplay #notknowing #portrait #nangoldin #independency #ballad #menwomen

Children of the now are you longing for love or fo

Children of the now are you longing for love or for freedom?
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The ballad of independency - Timescapes Series
Digital painting portraits inspired by photographic work from artist #nangoldin reflecting on the different languages men and women speak as well as the raw density of life in the 80s.
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How do we navigate this tension between love and freedom today?
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Thank you to those who answered on my story… it was great to read your different views.
Someone said “Love is freedom”… someone else “I can only love when I am free” … what would you say ?
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I personally enjoy not having a fixed answer, pondering on it, chewing on it, or having a different answer each day …

#digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalcollage #collageart #cutandpaste #collagecollective #collageartist #80s #love #freedom #koan #questionoftheday #poetsofinstagram #artplay #notknowing #portrait #nangoldin #independency #ballad #menwomen

Children of the now are you longing for love or fo

Children of the now are you longing for love or for freedom?
The ballad of independency…
Timescapes series
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Digital painting portrait series inspired by the photographic work of artist #nangoldin in the 80s reflecting on the different languages men and women speak as well as the raw density of life at this time.
How do we navigate this tension between love and freedom today?
Touch by her work I started this series of portraits that poetically revisit and transpose some of the scenes from “the ballad of sexual dependency” … this is what I call a “side project” that unfolds without knowing where it will go … following the inspiration and questioning from great artists, playing and trying things out on my iPad .. to be continued.
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#lovefreedom
#timescape
#independency
#collageart
#digitalart
#collageartist
#digitalanalog
#evolution
#inspiration
#studioplay
#artobsession
#nfts
#arttoday #greatartists
#80s

To tell the story of the Nopal cactus and the coch

To tell the story of the Nopal cactus and the cochineal insect we must start by honouring the “cosmovisión” of indigenous cultures in Central America who perceived the cosmos as a harmonious and interconnected entity where plants, animals, insects, humans, and celestial bodies, coexisted in a delicate balance. They have been mastering the art of breeding the cochineal insect on Nopal’s pads since centuries. The cochineal insect produces carminic acid, used as a valuable natural red dye for textiles, pottery, ceremonial body painting as well as natural medicine.
Following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the carmine red Cochineal pigment became a highly valuable trade commodity and a source of immense wealth for the Spanish Empire. Red has always been a powerful symbolic colour, representing love and war, blood and sacrifice, beauty and anger, revolution and progressive forces.
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Here an artwork by @roselinedethelin
TIMESCAPES series LIVING RED
Living Red revisits the myriad uses of the Cochineal red pigment, which is notably less toxic (though not vegan) than synthetic red pigments. It can be employed in food, medicinal products, cosmetics, and fabric dyeing.
This work is part of the action of artist collective @sos_cochichumbas around the disappearance of the nopal cactus ( chumberas- prickly pears) in Ibiza, in Spain, in Maruecco, in Canaries islands, a plague that could soon spread through North Africa and Europe…
The death of this plant has been provoked by the introduction of a deadly cochineal (not the original one that produces the best carmine pigment) in a nature reserve on mainland Spain to eliminate Nopal cactuses considered invasive... Our goal is to obtain government action to protect this beautiful plant that has been part of our landscapes for 400 years.
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#chumbera #cochinilla #ibiza #artcollective #ibizaartist #mujeresartistas #consciousart #accionesartísticas #citizenart #arteciudadano #landscapeart #cochineal #ibizanature #nopal #pricklypearcactus #ecologia #soscochichumbas #aiart #videoart #collageart #ecology #speculativeevolution #red #redpigment #indigenousculture #indigenousknowledge #cosmovision

Here a world collage map of 160 x 120cm that will

Here a world collage map of 160 x 120cm that will gather visual information relevant to the Nopal/Cochineal’s history worldwide mixed with speculative fabulation scenes. A work in process for the collective @SoS_Cochichumbas.
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To exploit the cactus’s potential for breeding the Cochineal insect and produce the coveted red carmine dye, European Colonizers imported the Nopal to Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. This is why today the Nopal Cactus is present on all continents’ temperate and hot climates. In many of these regions, the Nopal’s myriad other uses, well known by indigenous Mesoamerican cultures, remain often unexploited. Today in many countries the plant is labelled as invasive due to its remarkable resilience to heat and drought.
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A few years ago in Spain, a new strain of lethal Cochineal was introduced by preservation administration to eradicate the Nopal cactus from a nature reserve considering it a non-native invasive plant. The propagation of this new breed of Cochineal, coupled with a staggering 50% decline in insect diversity in Spain, of which many are natural predators of the cochineal, has contributed to the actual plague that is decimating the Nopal cactus not only in Spain but also in Morocco and could potentially spread to other European and African countries. This is a notable loss of an amazingly resourceful plant that has been part of the aesthetic of our Mediterranean landscapes for the last 400 years.
The goal of @SoS_Cochichumba collective is to obtain a change of statue for the Nopal cactus to cease labelling it as invasive and legally allow proper action to be taken against the deadly spreading of the plague.

#chumbera #cochinilla #ibiza #artcollective #ibizaartist #mujeresartistas #consciousart #accionesartísticas #citizenart #arteciudadano #landscapeart #cochineal #ibizanature #nopal #pricklypearcactus #ecologia #soscochichumbas #collageart #ecology #worldmap

What if the Nopal cactus would play a central role

What if the Nopal cactus would play a central role in the future of our planet?
The Nopal cactus (Opuntia), Chumbera in Spanish, Prickly Pear in English, is highly resistant to draught and heat. It could very well be the perfect plant of the future in times of global warming.
This amazing and beautiful plant has a myriad uses long known by the indigenous cultures of Central America. The Nopal is rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, both its pads and its pears can be eaten by both humans and animals. It can be used in cosmetics for its anti-aging and healing properties and in natural medicines for its anti-inflammatory and digestive properties.
Its fibres can be used to build homes and objects, or to make ropes and tools.
The Nopal is also be a potential source of biogaz and energy…
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PLANET NOPAL
TIMESCAPES series - artwork by @roselinedethelin
#speculativeevolution
Planet Nopal imagines a world in which the Nopal cactus is central to life providing everything humans, animals, cyborgs and humanoids need.
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Speculative fabulation is a type of imaginative “narration” that enables us to unfold new worlds through what could take place in the future or could have taken place helping us look at our ecological issues from different perspectives.
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Part of the artworks developed for the collective @sos_cochichumbas around the disappearance of the nopal cactus ( chumberas- prickly pears) in Ibiza, in Spain, in Maruecco, in Canaries islands, a plague that could soon spread through North Africa and Europe… Our goal is to obtain government action to protect this beautiful plant that has been part of our landscapes for 400 years.
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#chumbera #cochinilla #ibiza #artcollective #ibizaartist #mujeresartistas #consciousart #accionesartísticas #citizenart #arteciudadano #landscapeart #cochineal #ibizanature #nopal #pricklypearcactus #ecologia #soscochichumbas #aiart #videoart #collageart #ecology

Ibiza Timescapes series 🌵⏰🌵 What if the No

Ibiza Timescapes series
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What if the Nopal cactus would play a central role in the future of our planet?
Here the “payesa”, a disappearing archetype of the island of Ibiza who stands as the time keeper, a silent witness of changes in our ecological landscapes and a symbol of ancient wisdom close to the land, is looking at giant flowering Nopal cactuses.
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Speculative fabulation is a type of imaginative “narration” that enables one to unfold new worlds through what could take place in the future or could have taken place. Speculative fabulation enlarge our perception of history, inventing stories that re-shape possibilities, creating characters, myths, inventing new situations to question global and local ecological crisis.
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This series is part of the body of work I am developing with the collective @sos_cochichumbas around the disappearance of the nopal cactus ( chumberas- prickly pears) in Ibiza, in Spain, in Maruecco, in Canaries islands, a plague that could soon spread through North Africa and Europe…
The death of this plant has been provoked by the introduction of a deadly cochineal in a nature reserve on mainland Spain to eliminate Nopal cactuses considered invasive... Our goal is to obtain government action to protect this beautiful plant that has been part of our landscapes for 400 years. See other of my posts to understand its amazing history.

#speculativeevolution #speculativefiction #nopal #ecology #natureculture #ecopoieisis #chumbera #extinction #archetypes #mixedmediaart #aiart #timescape #landscape #ibizanature #ibizalove #payesa

Ibiza Timescape
Disappearance Nostalgia
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Death and rebirth are inherent in the cycles of life. The natural death of organisms contributes to the regeneration of the ecosystem, providing nutrients for new life to emerge. But today the disappearance of so many species, vegetal, insects and animals, is the symptom of a deep ecological disruption and imbalance. Human activities, ecological manipulation, habitat destruction, pollution, globalization and climate change, contribute to an accelerated and general loss of biodiversity. Today we talk about the Anthropocene: a term acknowledging that since the industrial revolution, humans are the primary drivers of geological and environmental change on a global scale.
Recognising the Anthropocene has implications for how societies approach environmental policies, conservation efforts, and sustainable development. It emphasises the interconnectedness of human activities with the Earth’s natural systems and our responsibility to ensure a sustainable future. For a natural rebirth or regeneration to occur, there needs to be concerted efforts towards conservation, habitat restoration, and sustainable practices.
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In this series, the silhouette of the payesa, a disappearing archetype of the island of Ibiza, stands as the time keeper, a silent witness of changes in the ecological landscapes of our island and a symbol of ancient wisdom close to the land.
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Part of the body of work I am developing with the collective @sos_cochichumbas around the disappearance of the nopal cactus ( chumberas- prickly pears) in Ibiza, in Spain, in Maruecco, in Canaries islands, the plague could soon spread through North Africa and Europe… due to the introduction of a deadly cochineal in a nature reserve on the mainland to eliminate some Nopal cactuses considered invasive... Our goal is to obtain government action to protect this beautiful plant that has been part of our landscapes for 400 years.
#antropocene #ecology #landscapes #multispecies #nopal #chumbera #evolution #extinction #regeneration #ibizanature #ecosystems #ecoart #activism #lifedeath #ibizalove #ibizalandscapes #disappearance #nostalgia

Ibiza Timescapes 🌵⏰🌵 The co-breeding of N

Ibiza Timescapes
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The co-breeding of Nopals cactuses and cochineal insects, woven into the fabric of history, is a testament of the intricate play of nature and cultures that shapes our landscapes through time.
For centuries, across cultures and continents, the relationship between Nopals cactuses and cochineal insects has been an artful dance, sustaining both species in a unique co-breeding alliance to produce food, cosmetics, dyes, fibers …
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In this series, the silhouette of the payesa, a disappearing archetype of the island of Ibiza, stands as the time keeper, a silent witness of changes in our ecological landscapes and a symbol of ancient wisdom close to the land.
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These ‘timescapes’ are part of the body of work I am developing with the art collective @sos_cochichumbas around the disappearance of the nopal cactus ( chumberas- prickly pears) in Ibiza, in Spain, in Maruecco… due to the introduction of a deadly cochineal by a nature reserve on the mainland provoking a general plague. Our goal is to obtain government action to protect this beautiful plant that has been part of our landscapes for 400 years.
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#multispecies #biodiversity #chumbera #nopales🌵 #pricklypear #ibiza #ibizanature #disappearance #ecopoiesis #ecoart #activism #paisajes #oldwoman #wisdom #digitalart #aiart #performance #timescape #evolution

What if the Nopal Cactus and the Cochineal insect

What if the Nopal Cactus and the Cochineal insect were the main protagonists of our future?
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“Memories of the Future” is an art project ,part of the collective @Sos_Cochichumbas, in which I explore the web of interconnectedness shaping our world through the lens of the symbiotic relationship between the Nopal Cactus from Central America and the Cochineal insect known for its carmine red pigment. This relationship serves as a gateway to “tentacular thinking” researching why Nopals in Spain are now dying due to a plague of Cochineal, exploring historical ties between Mexico and Spain, cultural hybridization, biodiversity and human-non-human interactions.
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After the conquest of Mexico the Nopal cactus a native species from the americas, has been imported to Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to try breeding cochineal and produce the famous Carmín pigment.
The series Multispecies Hybrid Worlds imagine worlds where hybrid cactus species are transported across continents, reshaping the planet’s landscapes with new species, for better or worse?
Soundscape: the birds of Ibiza
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The project draws inspiration from Donna Haraway, using both A.I. and internet to research the intricate “histories” of the Nopal and the Cochineal, I feed them in the form of “prompts” into AI-image generator to produce “speculative fabulations” /A type of “narration” that unfold new worlds arousing an appetite for what’s possible / in the form of images that I rework digitally. Multispecies storytelling is a contemporary non-anthropocentric way of thinking about nature. Multispecies perspectives address the challenges of climate change and the questions of landscape and land use.
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#donnaharaway #speculativefabulations #multispecies #storytelling #nopal #cochineal #storytelling #stayingwiththetrouble #chumberas #ecology #biodiversity #hybridization #natureculture #ecopoieisis #ai #aiart #videoart #ibiza #ibizalove #ibizanature #ibizaart

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