Bloodflowers

To produce cosmetically perfect blooms for export to the U.S. and Europe, Columbia's 80,000 flower industry workers, mostly women, perform long hours of physically grueling and hazardous labor.

Pollinators

Pollinators— most often bees, butterflies, birds, and bats are critical to fruit and seed production. The pesticide Imidacloprid is believed to be one of the main causes for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) amongst bees.

Flores Muertas

The print series Flores Muertas depicts the issue of where our flowers come from, what kind of hidden real costs and dangers lie behind them and questions global capitalism as a real danger to people and the environment.

Murcielago Santo

The crucified skeleton bat is a reminder to us, that human induced environmental hazards will most likely cause many species to go extinct.

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New Silkscreen Print

Posted by: admin on Apr 25, 2010

Tagged in: silkscreen

Below you can see me working in the studio on my silkscreen edition Pick Your Poison from the Flores Muertas series. The photos were taken back in February of 2010 and I am now putting the finishing touches on the edition. Nearly 30 colors later and 10 months of work, it is very close to be done.

From the Flores Muertas series.

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New Work

Posted by: admin on Mar 10, 2010

Tagged in: etching

Imidacloprid

Keeping the theme around flowers, pesticides, and agriculture this year I started a small etching, which was supposed to be a study for a larger print of mine, but it turned out so nice, so I decided to make it into an edition.

The etching is part of a series — “Flores Muertas.” It depicts the loss of habitat through human intervention and the harmful effects of pesticides and monocultures used in agriculture and in the flower production industry, which pollute and deplete nearby streams, ground water, and our food supply chain.

The pesticide Imidacloprid, which is produced by the pharmaceutical company Bayer, is in the family of neonicotinoids and is believed to be one of the causes for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) amongst bees. Both France in 2000 and Germany in 2008 have banned the pesticide from the market. Other European countries have followed. In this etching the bees are placed against a ‘beehive-like’ surface, which is composed of the molecule structure of the chemical Imidacloprid .

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