This work focuses on biodiversity, specifically on flora, how our identity (Costa Rica) is associated with exoticism and how certain flowers or fruits are cataloged in many places – and continue to be – as exotic. The exercise of this work consisted in asking: Exotics for whom? Who is determining those things? Why is a tropical landscape exotic? The one who lives there does not consider it exotic because he sees it every day of his life. For me, exotic is a desert, a fjord in Norway, or eating smoked herring for breakfast. In other words, presenting certain things or flowers as exotic, for me, is a situation worth exploring. These paintings seek to reflect exoticism with flowers, mixed with purely pictorial accidents, alluding to the painting that had amazed me in New York, but the idea here was to represent a stained garden, which was corrupt and at least had an intervention.
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