Made in Mexico City after conversations with my friend Helena about the illness affecting the city’s trees, this diptych brings together environmental loss, altered vision, and friendship. As sunlight hits my eyes at certain angles, veins and surface textures can overtake what I see. Looking at the damaged branches, I began to recognize a familiar visual pressure, as if the trees and my own vision were speaking through the same fragile system.

The work holds that overlap. One half carries the branching structure of a tree under stress; the other moves toward a softened human presence. Together, they reflect how loss is lived through the body, memory, and the landscapes we move through with others. What remains is shaped by grief, friendship, and the unstable beauty of what cannot be fully held.

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