Arcadia Artificial

Juguetes de plástico, plantas artificiales, pasto, conchas, cadenas, peluche, tela, stickers y peceras de vidrio

Arcadia Artificial is a project about play, natural history collections, and imagination filling in the gaps for what is unknown. I made “naturalist’s” trips to markets in Lima and collected the species I found.  Later, at my studio, I “recreated” the environment where I thought they might come from. These fictional habitats for plastic toys and artificial plants were contained in glass and surrounded by illustrations and tools.