This series come from my visits to Campeche and Mérida in the Southeast of México, and from my walks through Santo Domingo in the summer of 2025. Blood and an old heartbeat tie me to Mexico. Most of these houses are more than a century old. They have been, and still are, the stage for countless stories. They hold family secrets of loss and redemption, they have witnessed pettiness and quiet acts of love. They hold the past, and if we want to, they let us catch a glimpse of it.

Each drawing adds something that isn't there: oversized plants or the sea, a small impossibility that lets the house its character. Two drawings from this series were commissions, born from my May trip, where I wove in details drawn from the person and the history of the place. One of them features an octopus, it’s the totem animal of the owner.

The collection is always incomplete, always a work in progress.

What comes next: Doorknobs

From my last trip to Mexico (May, 2026) comes a new line of work. Doorknobs, with their bats, lions, hands and faces, sit in the in-between, neither inside nor outside. They carry the story of a family and of the time they were made, and today they are purely decorative, no longer needed to open anything. As a conservator by training, I want to paint them as an act of conservation and documentation. I'm currently working on studies, moving toward larger formats, acrylics and bolder colours.