Bleeding River, 2026

Drawing from the scarlet waters of Río Tinto in southern Spain, Bleeding River traces the point where beauty and devastation converge. The river, stained red by centuries of copper extraction, becomes both wound and witness, a landscape that remembers its own undoing. Standing before it was an act of reckoning, a confrontation with beauty steeped in grief. The work reflects on how the Earth testifies to harm while holding the memory of its own resilience. A meditation on tenderness and testimony, Bleeding River listens to the land as it speaks of pain and persistence, asking what forms of care might arise when we choose to stay close to its bleeding edge.