The first nest I built for me, 

and rapidly people wanted to enter. 

So I built nests for people to inhabit,

—Medellín, Valparaíso, Lüneburg, Toulouse, Granada—, 

And it was bigger than we.

Then I made a hundred hearts

With my hands

One by one

For people to find 

and accept 

through an open exchange

as a symbol of oneself.

            And each heart found home.

Then I made a golden egg

for people to fill with seeds, 

and for protection

we incrusted it far inside

our endangered natural park.

This last episode of the big gold-luster ceramic egg, I made during the pandemic. 

I live and work in Viña del Mar, Chile. About my practice I'd say that I like proposing variations on possibilities. To take from the ample field of experience, the knowledge to activate possibilities that propose different angles on what is known. In particular I am interested in the activation of objects/places/beings through action, memory, storytelling. When I choose a material I am interested in the relational system it brings attached. I usually prioritize a mineral and vegetal origin, over animal and synthetic. Beyond specific materials or procedures, I choose what serves as medium and host to the ideas I search and promote.

www.juanpablobahamonde.cl