Iona Arteaga

BROKEN EQUILIBRIA

Cyanotype on handmade paper, burnt edges, thread and branches

Variable dimensions

2026

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Broken Equilibria explores nature as a fragile archive shaped by transformation, instability, and loss.
Each suspended leaf carries the trace of a real geographical location affected by large-scale wildfires. Yet the image resists permanence: surfaces dissolve, burn, fade, and partially disappear.
Influenced by the idea of the trace as both presence and absence, the work approaches the image not as representation, but as a material record of what remains after alteration.
Through cyanotype, combustion, staining, and suspended installation, the work investigates how transformation inscribes itself into matter.