Commissioned work for The Largo Concept Hotel.

I developed 25 small, fabulous pieces of architecture.

The pieces I wish I were a little girl, so I could wander through their spaces and sit in their shade. They are also a kind of reunion between living materials: the wood, which, as it splinters, takes on an organic quality that is closer to the tree it once was 500 years ago, and the pine resin, which did not come from the same tree but from another, connecting the two in this new construction.

The pieces are made from elementary materials and are very light in weight. Even so, they are more delicate than crystal. Their finite longevity will depend on the care given to them by their owners and the environmental conditions in which the piece will live in its new home. In some way, they invite us to reflect on the finiteness of life, which in turn permeates everything, including buildings: what is not bad, just is. Everything is always changing. At the invitation of The Largo, I developed a series of small pieces using slivers of the old coffered ceilings of the building that is the project's headquarters (probably dating back to 1500), iron wire and pine resin.

The pieces, which are very light and delicate, remain standing due to some tension: the wire is inserted through two holes in the carved wooden sliver, and it is from its curves that it creates the tension necessary to remain fixed. The solid state of the resin is also tense in itself, and so inflexible that it becomes extremely brittle, and for this reason it also generates some tension when handling.

The finitude manifested by the fragility of the resin makes me think of the longing for an immortality of bodies and things. In architecture, there is a debate about a vision that until recently considered a building until its construction was completed, as if from then on it would only decay and death or as if there were a dome that made it impenetrable to the inevitable: its appropriation by humidity and animals - human or non-human: negligent or pests.

The truth, however, is that transformation is inevitable, beyond being good or bad. It simply is.