Topografía I
Year_ 2016.
Collection_ Topografías
Technique_ Layered paper cutouts.
Dimensions_ 80 × 55 cm.
About the Tolerance Collection_
The Topographies collection, developed in 2016, was my first collection presenting layered sculptures made of paper, an innovative technique in national art. This collection was based on childhood memories, which came to materialize through techniques developed in my studies as an architect.
“I am from Limón (Caribbean part of Costa Rica), half of my family is from Limón and the other half from San José (In the Central Valley of Costa Rica), so from a young age I remember that it was very common for us to cross Braulio Carrillo National Park to get from one side of the country to the other.
The curves of the road, the winding topography and the landscape of the area were engraved in my memory and have been present in my thoughts for as long as I can remember. Through my studies in architecture I learned about topographic maps and I was very struck by the way in which we architects represent these surfaces through physical models. I graduated from a workshop called Landscape Urbanism, where one of the main subjects was to analyze how urban projects can respect the natural space through its adequate implantation within the topography.
After analyzing kilometers of topography I began to remember how when I was a child I imagined people in the shape of the mountains of the Braulio Carrillo and I began to generate topographic studies using humans instead of terrain.
These studies took the form of sculptures using techniques that I learned through architecture. For me, each work is almost a model, it is a human topography. ” The Topographies collection was based on the concept that we are all part of the natural system and the natural system is part of us, so if we would not cut a person's arm, we should not allow the “arm” of a mountain system to be cut either. , to a valley or to a plain. It is through the personification of these concepts that the viewer is brought closer to these concepts.
Year_ 2016.
Collection_ Topografías
Technique_ Layered paper cutouts.
Dimensions_ 80 × 55 cm.
About the Tolerance Collection_
The Topographies collection, developed in 2016, was my first collection presenting layered sculptures made of paper, an innovative technique in national art. This collection was based on childhood memories, which came to materialize through techniques developed in my studies as an architect.
“I am from Limón (Caribbean part of Costa Rica), half of my family is from Limón and the other half from San José (In the Central Valley of Costa Rica), so from a young age I remember that it was very common for us to cross Braulio Carrillo National Park to get from one side of the country to the other.
The curves of the road, the winding topography and the landscape of the area were engraved in my memory and have been present in my thoughts for as long as I can remember. Through my studies in architecture I learned about topographic maps and I was very struck by the way in which we architects represent these surfaces through physical models. I graduated from a workshop called Landscape Urbanism, where one of the main subjects was to analyze how urban projects can respect the natural space through its adequate implantation within the topography.
After analyzing kilometers of topography I began to remember how when I was a child I imagined people in the shape of the mountains of the Braulio Carrillo and I began to generate topographic studies using humans instead of terrain.
These studies took the form of sculptures using techniques that I learned through architecture. For me, each work is almost a model, it is a human topography. ” The Topographies collection was based on the concept that we are all part of the natural system and the natural system is part of us, so if we would not cut a person's arm, we should not allow the “arm” of a mountain system to be cut either. , to a valley or to a plain. It is through the personification of these concepts that the viewer is brought closer to these concepts.
Year_ 2016.
Collection_ Topografías
Technique_ Layered paper cutouts.
Dimensions_ 80 × 55 cm.
About the Tolerance Collection_
The Topographies collection, developed in 2016, was my first collection presenting layered sculptures made of paper, an innovative technique in national art. This collection was based on childhood memories, which came to materialize through techniques developed in my studies as an architect.
“I am from Limón (Caribbean part of Costa Rica), half of my family is from Limón and the other half from San José (In the Central Valley of Costa Rica), so from a young age I remember that it was very common for us to cross Braulio Carrillo National Park to get from one side of the country to the other.
The curves of the road, the winding topography and the landscape of the area were engraved in my memory and have been present in my thoughts for as long as I can remember. Through my studies in architecture I learned about topographic maps and I was very struck by the way in which we architects represent these surfaces through physical models. I graduated from a workshop called Landscape Urbanism, where one of the main subjects was to analyze how urban projects can respect the natural space through its adequate implantation within the topography.
After analyzing kilometers of topography I began to remember how when I was a child I imagined people in the shape of the mountains of the Braulio Carrillo and I began to generate topographic studies using humans instead of terrain.
These studies took the form of sculptures using techniques that I learned through architecture. For me, each work is almost a model, it is a human topography. ” The Topographies collection was based on the concept that we are all part of the natural system and the natural system is part of us, so if we would not cut a person's arm, we should not allow the “arm” of a mountain system to be cut either. , to a valley or to a plain. It is through the personification of these concepts that the viewer is brought closer to these concepts.