Opportunity:

In spring 2025, I was invited to propose a land art installation for Tepoztlán, a small town in the mountains outside Mexico City. Walking the region’s biodiverse forests with local guides, I realized it would take years to identify even a fraction of the native species. That gap between presence and comprehension became the catalyst for this work.

Solution:

Frames of Nature consists of seven weathered iron gates arranged in linear progression. Each gate increases from 3 to 10 meters in height. The installation provides reference points for observing the forest’s scale: a 5-meter tree becomes legible against the fourth gate; a 9-meter oak reveals its stature beside the seventh. *

The work is designed to be absorbed by its context. Nature grows freely through the frames; visitors move freely between them. What begins as human intervention becomes, over years, a collaborative composition—the iron frames serving as both witness and participant in the forest’s ongoing transformation.

The piece invites you: “Sometimes it's easier to grasp urban dimensions/proportions and misunderstand those of nature. The installation aims to contextualize the architecture of nature and the influence that its tenants (permanent and temporary) have on its changing form and structure. Frames of Nature looks to provide its visitors the tools to evaluate (respect?) nature's (extra) ordinary creations over time.”