The Watermark

Since the 1940s, when Juanacatlan began to industrialize, development did not benefit the inhabitants or its landscape. You can no longer live off the river. The economic benefits of industrialization have been for entrepreneurs and the precariousness has been for the people and the countryside. Upon arriving in Juanacatlan, the landscape greets you with a bombardment of your senses, the air becomes dense and a characteristic smell of drainage begins to sting your nose. The toxic foam floats in the environment as if they were clouds of cotton. Water is a fundamental part of mystical and religious processes and at the same time the central axis of the social and industrial development of a society. This is a plastic/visual reflection on the complex relationships that human beings have established with nature and with the environment that has been intervened. The monochromatic tone in black and red is due to the fact that an infrared technique is used, in which the spectrum that travels from 500 to 750 nanometers is recorded. Infrared photography is used to detect diseases, insect pests and other problems in plants