EL ORIGEN DEL CONFLICTO
2021

In 2021 I created a mural in the community museum of Caborca, the town where an open-pit gold mine had operated illegally on the lands of the Ejido El Bajío. Since 2017 I have worked closely with the ejidatarios, who fought and won a long legal battle to reclaim their land. From the exposed depths of the pit, I collected soil—material that would never surface without the force of industrial machinery—and processed it into a pigment with a peculiar ochre tone. This pigment became the medium for the mural. What interests me is the political dimension of color: how it can carry the weight of conflict, extraction, and resistance. By transforming the deep earth of a scarred landscape into a painted surface, the mural re-situates a substance marked by dispossession into a gesture of presence and collective memory.