Daira Ronzoni

The shapes, and colours I produce, coexist with one another within the space they occupy. I examine the origins of culture, agriculture, and ecology through the translation of sculpture, ceramics, mixed media textiles, and digital realms. Colours and tactility continue to be an essential spark in my work, engaging with my own memories and South American traditions, to create a three-dimensional sculptural paradise-scape. Inspired by the Pachamama deity, who is envisioned as representing the earth's most sacred ancestors: our soil, seeds, fruits, water and plants. Our hands have been a part of shaping our environment for many seasons, this knowledge belongs to communities that are still alive today. I'm constantly thinking about our relationship with Pachamama and the various ways we might make our most precious offerings in exchange for the safety of our food, crops, and ecology. Shapes, colours, and use of mix media materials are symbolic to my South American roots, and create interactive conversations through traditions, a way of seeing, and feeling through an abundance of illuminous fruits, flora and fauna. These elements combine to form my own visual language.  The constant relationship with these tactile materials, forms and hues, reveal that all organisms are in the process of creating an identity, which is not stable and is constantly recreated and rewired.