Project
Jardins Migratoires is a long-term project that reflects on movement as a shared condition of both nature and humanity. Since ancient times, flowers and seeds have traveled across territories, adapting and flourishing elsewhere. Human histories are no different: every family tree carries traces of migration, displacement, and cultural crossings.
This project unfolds as a container of multiple series, each using different visual languages—digital illustration, pastel, screen printing, and textiles—to explore these stories. Through their diversity and transformation, botanical forms mirror the ways in which human identities migrate, intertwine, and reinvent themselves across borders.
SERIE I
2024/2025
The first series of Jardins Migratoires explores the fusion of human and botanical forms. Faces merge with petals and stems, becoming hybrid portraits that reflect identity, resilience, and cultural crossings.
The series began with ink drawings and evolved into digital illustrations created in Photoshop and Procreate between 2024 and 2025.
The works were produced in five different motifs, printed both on fine art paper and on textiles. The textiles were sourced in France and hand-printed in Colombia in collaboration with a distinguished silkscreen atelier. Each variation explores different colors and fabrics as part of the series.
This series unfolds across two mediums — fine art paper and textile — combining screen printing with hand-made interventions. Each piece can be presented as a pure serigraph or uniquely enhanced through techniques such as embroidery, watercolor, or other mixed media.
These photos were taken in Montmartre, the neighborhood where I’ve lived for many years. Placing the works here connects my everyday life with the project’s story.
SERIE II
2025
This series is rooted in my own biography and reflects a visual correspondence between Colombia and France.
By bringing together the Cattleya trianae, Colombia’s national flower, and the Iris, the historical symbol of France, the works explore memory, migration, and transformation — a migrant garden where roots travel and bloom elsewhere.
Originally created as digital drawings in Procreate and later transposed into dry and oil pastel, the series unfolds across two formats: 32 × 50 cm and 18 × 24 cm.
It comprises eight illustrations — four Cattleyas and four Irises — each revealing subtle movements of light that shift through layered structures, like living fragments of color in motion.
The illustrations emerge from a single digital file, where layers activate, hide, and dissolve — revealing a process in constant transformation.
What was once hidden within the digital composition becomes visible matter through drawing and painting.
Each layer, each gesture of the process, becomes a work in itself — a trace of light in transition.
A glimpse into the creative process: from digital sketches in Procreate to the layering of textures and forms that bring the series to life.
Work in progress — soft pastel drawings currently in development.