In Precious Dust, I work with the dust accumulated on my art book shelf. I'm interested in observing this matter as a poetic and political agent. Taking up the idea of "speaking from things," I understand that not only human subjects can produce meaning. From this perspective, dust has agency: it participates in the construction of bonds, activates memories, and connects times and geographies. 

While researching its composition, I discovered that it contains particles from the Popocatépetl volcano, snad from the Sahara, and human cells. This led me to work with dust as a living archive. I photograph its accumulation and then transfer those images through the cyanotype process onto fabric, as if each cloth preserved a story.

I don't seek to represent, but to collaborate with matter. The project proposes other forms of relationship with the environment, beyond the utilitarian framework. I'm interested in exploring how the minimal can also lead us to think about alternative ways of coexistence.

I use cyanotype on fabric, where blue - a precious color in the Nahuatl tradition - combines with artificial diamonds: dust becomes a jewel, and ruin becomes cosmos.