mapping-me

Mapping-me series, 40 x 20 x 20 cm. approx., mixed (inks, marker, acrylic and Decadry) on wood.

The work of Maria Ortega Estepa The author questions the idea of ​​nature as something timeless, dominated by a personal meaning and a work based on stories from older people who tell them about life. Through various series that the author has made over the last six years and closely linked to each other, she now proposes a new cartography where the look at the natural landscape is multiplied through various paths.

The tree continues to be an icon present in his work: from the panoramic views of dense forests, to the micro-landscape with a work of introspection that today dominates his proposal or his micro-world full of experiences, he has been transforming his way of understanding art by responding to the new way in which he relates to nature.

Through vegetal elements, umbilically rooted in the earth, Ortega does nothing but relive her life, strengthen ties with her loved ones, with the family environment that shelters her. The memory of childhood, surely the leitmotiv which drives all his work, finds in this icon its maximum expression because it is a silent witness to countless things.