Using a short fragment of one of the six soliloquies in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and 3 borrowed/appropriated images I built seven things demanding duration and my own reflection on the use of language. Candles meant to be consumed by the fire and disappear emulate the nature of spoken words gone with the wind. Images expected to communicate more than a thousand words are somehow silent.”

Entre el cielo y la tierra (Between Heaven and Earth), 2023

"Between Heaven and Earth" is an installation composed of two opposing poems, as if they were a message and a response. The first poem, borrowed from Lope de Vega, is entirely made of paraffin. Each letter of the sonnet was taken from a mold to write the sonnet, forming a candle resembling a tombstone destined to disappear.

As it burns and melts upon itself, its message erases progressively, becoming inaccessible and unintelligible, like a discourse that is forgotten after being spoken. The second poem, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, is arranged on the ground over six white tiles. It is made of black smoke pigment and presents itself as fallen residue that can only be erased by the wind, a distracted foot that shakes it, or a mechanical force that makes it vanish.

Although both poems are closely situated, one tends upwards with the flame as an intermediary that produces soot, blending with the space, while the other can only remain tied to the earth due to its weight. Both messages, clearly expressions of love, accompany and recite each other, without the possibility of becoming one.