TITLE: Archives of the Living
FORMAT: various
TECHNIQUE: oilpainting / mixed technique / Aquarell

Together, PHOCA, DRABARI, EUBA, EUCA, and TAPI do not form a botanical inventory.
They form a web of relationships.
PHOCA – Phoenix canariensis – survival, sustenance, and transmission. DRABARI –
Dracaena cinnabari – blood, injury, and regeneration. EUBA – Euphorbia balsamifera –
preservation, healing, and use. EUCA – Euphorbia canariensis – boundary, resistance,
and protection. TAPI – Echium auberianum, tajinaste picante – intrinsic value, autonomy,
and control.
Together they tell of a landscape in which life emerges under conditions that
simultaneously shape it, limit it, and make it unique. Volcanism destroys – and creates
new ground. Isolation generates uniqueness – and vulnerability. Drought forces storage.
Altitude forces adaptation. Evolution responds with forms that could arise only from the
particular conditions of this island world.