Medicina

2015 When considering the use of native plants for medicinal purposes, due to the respective healing properties of each one and their use in esoteric rituals, they are usually associated with the benefits of their essence as fruits coming from nature. Freshness, connection with ancestral traditions, growth, regeneration, and the aura of life are some of the qualities attributed to them. The photographic series Medicine (Spanish for Medicine) proposes to make a distance between these characteristics to reflect how today, in urban places, far from the original location of planting and cultivation, users who want to benefit from their properties purchase them in local markets as a dry and withered consumer product. The aim is to heal through distance, death, and lack of memory. The branches, once part of an organism planted on the land within a space of vast nature, are approached photographically, in Medicina, dismembered from their original context, where it becomes evident how they are losing their original essence.