About this artwork

In January 2020, while researching plants, I met Liliana, the granddaughter of Maevia Noemí Correa, known as "The Lady of Orchids." Upon hearing and learning about her grandmother's fascination with these mysterious flowers, I decided to research and get to know them in depth.

This led me to want to incorporate them into my work, transforming them into the new protagonists of my velvet robes.

The endless morphological and colorful possibilities of orchids allowed me to play with this soft fabric, creating unique and multisensory textures.
Tropical rainforests, rocky deserts, high mountains: all possible habitats for perhaps the most ambiguous and mysterious flowers on Earth.

Velvet becomes another place to inhabit.

To weave their roots into the glossy fabric. To crush it or create textures and enhance its shine. Mutant and seductive flowers find in this textile a new habitat that empowers them.

An ambiguous material, like them, turned into coats to cover, protect, and beautify bodies that need this strength to adapt to the new era.

The softness of velvet and the rough, rugged textures provide a constant sensory stimulus, demonstrating that, just like orchids, we can mutate in the pursuit of our survival.

There is a close connection between these ominous flowers and velvet, as both elements inherently demonstrate the ability to adapt, transform, and achieve unimaginable results. Like them, this project is evolving towards new horizons...

August 2021.