Sepultura de semillas

This piece was on view at the Hammer Museum as part of the No Humans Involved exhibition. This piece has been in development for three years and is the first time I’ve publicly shown this body of work, which I’ve researched and experimented with for several years.

The work focuses on collaboration with materials, reclaiming buried histories, and preserving narratives for a post-human world. It also challenges the notion that specific material processes and innovations are exclusively Western. The amber cube at the heart of this piece will gradually transform throughout the exhibition, shifting from its perfect geometric form into an organic shape by its own agency and weight.

This piece challenges the traditional idea of archives, proposing instead a dynamic cycle of rebirth. The work can be re-cast repeatedly, honoring the natural cycle of life rather than resisting it.

• Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio