When Drought Becomes Visible

The works from this series are currently available in small format through the studio. You can view available pieces in the Editions section of my website.

Tree rings do not lie.

They register what the sky withholds.

In 2022, large parts of Europe experienced one of the most severe droughts in recent history. What often appears in headlines as data — percentages, temperatures, rainfall deficits — is, in fact, a material event. It enters the body of trees. It compresses growth. It leaves a scar.

My Drought Ring works are small-scale pyrography pieces on cork that reinterpret tree ring sections. The red mark signals a specific year of extreme dryness,

when climate imbalance became visibly inscribed in matter.

Cork, as a material, carries its own ecological significance. It is harvested without cutting down the tree. It regenerates. It records time. By burning the surface, I echo both the violence of heat and the persistence of memory. Fire becomes both method and metaphor.

This body of work is part of my broader climate art practice, where I investigate how environmental change is archived in natural structures. Tree rings are silent witnesses of climate change. They hold data, but they also hold narrative.

In an era of accelerating ecological crisis, I am interested in slowing down perception — in looking closely at what has already been written into the fabric of the world.

Climate and memory are not abstract concepts.

They are inscribed in matter.