Nightfall, 2011
Chirchita seeds, dried branches, golden sand, adhesive and resin on a wooden base
60 x 60 x 60 inches
In Nightfall, the chirchita seeds used as raw material, like most other organic material he employs, are in an endless process of becoming rather than being. Art that naturally works on itself, ever changing form in order to become a new object, contains implicitly its own subtle protest against commoditization and any sort of mass-production. The realm of domestic industry is entered into and claimed by the male body, raising questions of whether the notion of fixed social identity is desirable or even tenable.