"Tisulares"  is a series of drawings and digital photographs that I made during the first months of the pandemic. The 'lockdown' or confinement that we experienced at the beginning of this period, resulted in an invitation to visual attention to the details of the small things that surrounded me, the minute observation of textures and the recognition of visual interconnections between my body and other natural elements that I spontaneously found in my backyard. I began by picking dried flowers that the Emajaguilla tree dropped on my terrace. When I put them in my hand to observe them, I was surprised by the similarity between their lines and the lines and wrinkles of my skin, and I recorded this encounter photographically. Once the images were transferred to the digital medium, I created drawings freely using the techniques of archaeological drawing. In the end, I marked the encounter between my skin and the dried flower by creating elements that might suggest scars or sutures, perhaps recognizing the continuity between living organisms that the virus was forcing us to rethink.

In this work that I have called Tisulares (From fr. tissulaire, der. of tissu 'tissue'.adj. Biol. Pertaining or relating to the tissues of organisms) the initial photographs coexist with all the drawings that emerge from them. They are not in order, thus creating a kind of puzzle that invites to discover the related pieces and invent other connections. The final form of the whole is then variable, like a living tissue, like a skin.
like a living fabric, like a skin.

Dhara Rivera