Un ojo que vuela en la selva

2025
Intervention: digital drawings
Variable dimensions

Three gondolas of the Schauinsland cable car have been visually transformed with images of a toucan, a jaguar, and a snake—animals native to the South American tropics and now carriers of stories marked by fire, loss, and resilience. The intervention draws from the artist’s time at a wildlife refuge in Roboré, Bolivia, during the catastrophic fires of 2019 in the Chiquitanía and Amazon regions, where she assisted in caring for injured animals, including a blind toucan that became central to this work.

"Un ojo que vuela en la selva" (An eye that flies in the rain forest) honors the lives of countless animals lost to wildfires, monoculture, drought, and extractive industries. The three creatures—now rendered on the exterior of a popular cable car attraction—stand in as witnesses to ecological breakdown, but also as emblems of adaptation and survival.

As the cable cars glide over the dense green of the Freiburg forest, they draw an unexpected connection between two vastly different yet deeply entangled topographies: one lush and better preserved, the other scorched and vanishing. This contrast prompts reflection on how we assign value to certain landscapes—and how the aesthetic appeal of preserved environments can sometimes make us forget that elsewhere, nature is being irreversibly destroyed through deliberate interference and the consequences of the climate crisis.

Un ojo que vuela en la selva

2025
Intervention: digital drawings
Variable dimensions

Three gondolas of the Schauinsland cable car have been visually transformed with images of a toucan, a jaguar, and a snake—animals native to the South American tropics and now carriers of stories marked by fire, loss, and resilience. The intervention draws from the artist’s time at a wildlife refuge in Roboré, Bolivia, during the catastrophic fires of 2019 in the Chiquitanía and Amazon regions, where she assisted in caring for injured animals, including a blind toucan that became central to this work.

"Un ojo que vuela en la selva" (An eye that flies in the rain forest) honors the lives of countless animals lost to wildfires, monoculture, drought, and extractive industries. The three creatures—now rendered on the exterior of a popular cable car attraction—stand in as witnesses to ecological breakdown, but also as emblems of adaptation and survival.

As the cable cars glide over the dense green of the Freiburg forest, they draw an unexpected connection between two vastly different yet deeply entangled topographies: one lush and better preserved, the other scorched and vanishing. This contrast prompts reflection on how we assign value to certain landscapes—and how the aesthetic appeal of preserved environments can sometimes make us forget that elsewhere, nature is being irreversibly destroyed through deliberate interference and the consequences of the climate crisis.