Inspired by the landscapes of the Colombian Andean páramo, this ceramic piece explores the interweaving of technology, memory, and territory. A sacred and resilient ecosystem, the páramo with its upright frailejones and soils saturated with history becomes here a symbol of resistance and transformation.

Organic, eroded forms like mountain peaks shaped by wind and water merge with the precise traces of 3D printing, creating a tension between the organic and the digital. The glazed protrusions evoke roots or life forms that insist on growing, even in the inhospitable.

Each “knot” is more than a shape: it is a point of connection between moments, techniques, and spaces. It is a gesture that honors what emerges slowly and silently, like the frailejón that grows millimeter by millimeter in extreme altitudes. Nudos del Páramo offers a poetic reading of matter—where clay speaks of origin, and the machine translates the human gesture into visible layers of memory.

3D clay printed on whitestone ware, Reduction fire, Rhino model. Handmade details.

Jessica Suárez. 2024