​SELVANDO (a combination of selva, meaning “jungle,” and dibujando, meaning “drawing”) brings together drawing across diverse supports and materials, along with photography. The images emerge because of the instability of a system: for years, I witnessed the transformation of the banks of a river in eastern Colombia into extensive rice fields and cattle ranches.

 

Drawing in different places and at different times gradually became a practice akin to mourning. The works do not represent the riverbank; instead, they reorganize the landscape as evolving structures of perception, in which drawing operates as an ecological system.