RECIPROCIDAD / RECIPROCITY

Special project completed for "The Modern Austin Residencies". The new 5th tallest building in Austin Texas.

The work was a sculptural mural in bronze consisting of 2 areas, part of the building's facade and on display to the public. Its installation concluded in May 2025, so it will be part of the presentation at the building's inauguration, scheduled for the third quarter of the current year.

Measurements: 432 x 262 cm
Approximate weight: 450 kg
Technique: Lost wax bronze
Number of pieces: 15 (1 main piece and 14 individual elements)

Measurements: 508 x 261 cm
Approximate weight: 794 kg
Technique: Lost-wax bronze
Number of pieces: 9 (1 main piece and 8 individual elements)

The general concept of the piece lies in the integration of both walls, separated by a central column, thus creating an interaction that seeks to generate continuity between the lines that compose the sculpture, and thus create the illusion of movement.

The intention is to represent the concept of exchange in communication, reciprocity, whether cultural, intellectual, or labor, as a code that evokes in a more abstract and contemporary way, the mode of communication of the different ancestral cultures. But at the same time it also leads us to the idea in which digital data behaves, and reminds us of the aesthetics of current technology in a graphic way.

This is in order for it to be a piece that is familiar to the viewer, where in this case, being in a public area, where it is a neighborhood mostly of people of Latino origin (as is my case) and African American, and it is becoming an area of great real estate developments, it seeks to symbolize that need to create community in a space that evolved towards a development that seeks to be sustainable not only in ecological topics but also in an idea of reciprocity and can generate a healthy cultural interaction.