This body of work draws on la limpia, a a Pre-Columbian cleansing ritual practiced by the artist’s mother and grandmother, in which a raw egg is passed along the body to draw out energetic contamination or susto before being cracked into water to reveal its shape. 

Treating this ritual as inherently photographic, de los Heros cast one of her grandmother’s drinking glasses in her own configuration of photographic emulsion: creating several vessels. 

Set on latex, these pieces react to light, humidity, and their surroundings, slowly dehydrating and reshaping. The latex, once liquid, solidifies over time and records both the floor and its interaction with the vessels.

How might the presence of viewer, and the act of looking, further accelerate the vessels’ breakdown? This relationship between attention and material change emphasizes an immediate exchange between subject and observer, where seeing is not passive but erosive.