Lauda Vargas
- A Daily Reminder
- Archive of Destruction
- Archive of Destruction II
- Of Bodies
- Recuerdos Desconocidos
- For my dad
- between absences
- self portrait
- Still Processing
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Archive of Destruction
Archive of Destruction
Color pencil on paper
100 x 70cm ea
Between the lush tropical vegetation, the earth revealed itself, rich in a dark red-orange tone. It took a little while for my brain to register what I was seeing. Machines had just uprooted and removed the vegetation to make way for the new construction that would soon cover the earth’s wound.
Archive of Destruction is a series of drawings based on images I took at various scales of earth being excavated and cut prior to luxury construction projects in Samaná, Dominican Republic. This series is an ongoing archive of the deforestation happening throughout the region due to the massive ‘touristification’ of the Samaná region.