Breathing Wound

The Breathing Wound series comprises watercolors depicting the self-sustaining yet seemingly futile occupations found in the streets of South America. Drawing upon the visual language of nineteenth-century chroniclers, the artist transforms these precarious forms of labor into intimate records of survival, persistence, and social invisibility. The works are painted on paper dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, allowing the material history of each surface to become part of the series’ reflection on time, labor, and endurance.