Araucarias represents a three-dimensional evolution of the investigation initiated in "Jogo" (Game), delving deeper into the study of timelines and their ramifications through sculptural language. The artwork utilizes natural wood blocks,meticulously stacked to evoke the majestic silhouette of the araucaria tree—an ancestral and iconic species from Southern South America.
The piece gains both material density and telluric resonance from its medium. The wood's visible grain and textures reveal its inherent growth cycles, imprinting the sculpture with its original temporality. The resulting structure,simultaneously fragmented and cohesive, translates a discontinuous yet cumulative sense of time, where each added block narrates a story of continuity and transformation.
While "Jogo" invited participants to manipulate linear extensions, here, the very morphology of the wood suggests temporal lines and routes that intertwine organically, forming spirals that expand beyond the traditional conception of linear time. These spirals symbolize the vital human experience, permeated by memory, learning, and constant transformation. They illustrate multiple temporalities that collide and reorient, reflecting plural identities in continuous mutation.
Thus, Araucarias establishes a dynamic field of coexisting temporalities, proposing a rupture with chronological linearity. It asserts time as a complex space of forces, flows, and encounters,
TECHNICAL SHEET
Project: Araucarias
Role: Sculptor, Concept Development
Year: 2025
Medium: Stacked Natural Wood Blocks
Dimensions: approx. 500 x 500 x 6 cm
Themes: temporality, memory, organic growth, non-linear time, materiality, landscape.