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“There’s a forest twenty minutes from home
an isolated bastion, ten minutes from a shopping mall.”


This project began in 2022 as a kind of “collaboration” with nature: completing forms that nature begins, finishing them in an intentionally non-realistic style.

Nordic culture is deeply connected to spending time outdoors, regardless of the weather. In fact, there’s a saying: “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” After living in Denmark for over six years, my bond with nature has only deepened. Now, whenever I return to Galicia, I spend far less time in cities and more exploring the incredible natural spaces of my homeland.

The project’s title comes from the discovery that just twenty minutes from where I spent my entire childhood and youth, there is a native forest—a fragment of temperate woodland (one of the most endangered habitats on the planet). Ten minutes away, there’s a massive outlet mall. Ten minutes further, the city of A Coruña.

I lived nineteen years just twenty minutes from that forest, and I never knew it was there.

This project seeks to highlight the importance of nature, green spaces, and the preservation of native forests. But it also draws a thread between the landscapes of northern Europe and those of Galicia. When we emigrate, we instinctively seek echoes of the land we come from and carry within us. Every time I walk through the Danish woods near my home, among the oaks, I close my eyes and imagine myself in that forest, twenty minutes from my parents’ house.

Working with materials I find in nature or easily accessible in my daily life, I build sculptures that are deeply tied to the space or territory.

Acrylic, graphite, ink, filler… materials blend together in this multidisciplinary exploration.

Like in a forest, there is figuration and abstraction. Concrete forms come together to create nearly abstract compositions, where textures and color combinations take center stage. If you look closely you might begin to recognize certain elements: a familiar plant, the shape of a leaf, the outline of a tree.

Inspired by nature and driven by the desire to recreate its balanced chaos, its textures and tones, I explored ways of bringing it into the studio. Creating with nature as both starting point and destination—a source of inspiration that is both first and final, a place to return to.