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Efiɛ Gallery
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water.
In ‘I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water ’, María Magdalena Campos-Pons addresses with urgency our need to consider the spiritually symbiotic relationship between a person and nature. She explores the importance of plants and animals around us, and their ability to provide us with healing properties, if only we give them the chance to breathe.
There is an alchemy to the process of making art that the artist sees reflected in the natural world. She retains a sense of awe at the natural processes that take place everyday for the world to exist as it is—the sun rising, the seeds spreading, the plants growing, the flowers blooming, the fruit yielding.
In some ways it is a metaphor for her purpose as an artist, an overwhelming need to understand and appreciate our presence in this dimension. This series can feel like an attempt to freeze the magic of the present moment, to give some kind of materiality to the transience of life. These watercolour paintings can sometimes feel like a painterly photograph, capturing an ephemeral moment seeking to make it eternal…
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