The fracture is the shape of a mountain

2025 - ongoing
 

The fracture is the shape of a mountain arises from a review of an amateur photo album kept by my mother documenting the 1999 earthquake in Armenia, Colombia. Her photos are, above all, a record of the aftermath: of the cracks left in the walls and the improvised houses that were assembled. This project is a response to that archive, a way to formulate new questions about natural disasters in a high-vulnerability zone, and a quest to rethink the different forms of the landscape where I was born and raised.

 

Geological studies show that the creation of mountains comes from breakage: earth moving, fracturing itself, from which mountains—larger than everything else—sprout almost like flowers. Here, I explore a conversation between mother and daughter about the triangular shape—perhaps of the roofs that offer shelter—and about what it means to build and dismantle a home.