“Súplica” was born in response to the intentional fire that burned a large amount of land in Argentina while humans were in their homes due to quarantine. In my home garden, I burned a lot of dry herbs and twigs and I put myself into smoke and near the fire. My body, feminine, was a metaphor for nature. I hurt myself the same way we hurt the Earth. This was recorded. Then I chose some frames from the video and worked with them. Later, I took one of these photos and printed it and made an intervention with more fire and wrote the following text:

“Fire, light and smoke. Destructive particles. Active body that emits energy. Dancing bodies waiting for putrefaction or rain. I am meat ready for fire. I can smell the hand of the man who destroys… the forests, the islands, my ribs. The tears that flow from my despair are not enough to suffocate the ritual. Combustion and hopelessness. I become part of the horde of animals displaced from their nests, orphans of land. I run with them, woman-wolf, escape, dance, cry. Run… dance… cry an unanswered supplication.”