Multimedia
Geologia Parasitica:
The beauty of invasive growth
Geologia Parasitica is a virtual reality museum experience that explores the strange and stunning world of mineral overgrowth. Visitors are immersed in a monumental-scale environment where oversized, fictitious crystals hang suspended in space, each one slowly being consumed and transformed by another crystalline form growing across its surface.
The concept draws a visual and conceptual parallel between the aggressive, organic spread of parasitic plants in nature and the way certain minerals colonize and overtake one another in the geological world. Through dramatic time-lapse sequences, guests witness this usually imperceptible process unfold in real time, turning geological time into a living, breathing spectacle.
The crystals on display are entirely invented, with original names and forms, freeing the experience from scientific constraint and allowing for a more poetic and aesthetic exploration of growth, invasion, and co-existence in the mineral kingdom.
Cocain
Cocain is an educational brochure distributed to travelers upon arrival in Andean countries, designed to introduce visitors to the rich cultural world of the coca leaf. The brochure is both an informational guide and a tactile cultural artifact, tucked inside is a small chuspa (a traditional woven pouch used to carry coca leaves) along with four paper coca leaves affixed directly to the pages, inviting a personal connection to the subject.
Accompanying the brochure is a short educational video, accessible while traveling, that explores the many traditional uses of the coca leaf in Andean culture — from chewing and tea to ceremonial and medicinal practices. It also touches on the vast distance, chemically, industrially, and culturally, between a few leaves carried in a pouch and the production of cocaine, making clear that the two exist in entirely different worlds.
The project aims to reduce cultural shock and dismantle the stigma that many Western visitors carry around the coca leaf. By grounding the experience in history, tradition, and everyday Andean life, Cocain encourages a more informed and respectful curiosity toward one of the region’s most misunderstood cultural symbols.
