An ancient Samán tree spreads its branches in an uncontrollable tangle that overflows the paper. The piece stems from an urgent desire to protect nature and the helplessness of feeling that such an intention often dissipates.
A hand holds a silver strainer spoon, a family heirloom. The spoon represents everything we wish to preserve but fail to retain; the metaphor of a caring power slipping through our fingers. Yet the water, as it leaks away, fulfills its destiny. Passing through the strainer does not destroy it; it transforms it into a nourishing rain.
Bringing these images together was like illustrating an intimate fairytale. An attempt to sublime the grief of human impact on the world, transforming it into an ode to the beauty of a nature that requires no permission from us to keep growing.

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