Clara Inés Arámburo Torres

In the landscape where I stand, no matter where I am, or where I am going, I am no other from the land. I am a body, the land-dreaming capacity; Earth-body.

In the land where I was born, the mountains talk to us, they move, they shake us to the core. The volcano spits what the collective body accumulates, and they cry, cry and cry. I carry these landscapes within me.

 

Tierrita, let me ferment in you, to become resilient.

Aguita, wash my sorrows away, cleaning my gut.

 

The land-dreaming capacity, is an installation of a standing painting (1.32 x 1.78) with a wood carving back, and collection of ceramic Comales, that explores the connection between the landscape and the body, seeing it not as separate entities, but as extensions of each other.

 

Comal, is a Mexican cooking dish, traditionally used since the pre-Hispanic period, to make tortillas and toast ingredients. Made out of clay, I see it as a ritualistic every day practice to intake the soils and what is grown in it, to become it.