Cristina Escario presents her 4 year long project “Dahon”

Text by Art+ Staff

A young artist creates an installation out of dried leaves she collected for the past 4 years.

Cristina Escario creates meaning in forms and symmetry. She expresses this through her latest installation “Dahon”. The installation is presented through an approximation of the Golden Mean or Fibonacci sequence in its structural design and configuration of the work’s unit which is the leaf. The spiral takes from the Fibonacci sequence in nature’s design, such as a snail shell, pinecone, or a budding rose.

Escario incorporates this patten into her work to convey the ebb and flow and continuity of human life and nature. Her use of organic materials is a reaction against the use of synthetic and harsh chemical-based products used in her previous works.

“Dahon aims to evoke a visceral experience from the audience; taping the unconscious to deepen people’s understanding and appreciation of the transitory and the passing of life and time as elements of a beautiful, well-planned design of God”

“Dahon” is on view at the Corredor Gallery, UP College of Fine Arts, Diliman QC until April 24, 2018.