A landscape scaled in space unfolds like an open book: water, its essence, flows beneath the peat, filtering, storing, and protecting the surface. The watercolor narrates a scene of carnivorous plants within an intimate, humid territory, where each fold and page allows viewers to traverse the painted area and carry its landscape. The work connects expansion and contraction, matter and flow, inviting the viewer to follow the path of water and inhabit an ecosystem contained in paper, light, and movement.

This project emerged from a conversation woven across distance between two places: Montreal and Mompox. Both are islands, surrounded by river waters, experienced as home. On one side, Leticia Gutiérrez Veleño (Orfebreria Leanjo), and her family, carrying a profound legacy of inherited craft and Momposino materiality in goldsmithing; on the other, my own island, which has become my home where I put down roots.