Paisaje domestico

In 2005, the Government decided to extend the program for eradicating illicit crops through Glyphosate fumigation to several of Colombia's National Parks. A National Park is defined here as a "Sanctuary of native flora and fauna." I felt an urgent need to see, at least in part, what was happening in those remote sanctuaries of our country subjected to the aerial spraying of these substances, but no matter how hard I tried, I only found images of crop-dusting planes and never of the results.

"Paisaje domestico" can be considered a micro-fumigation. It began on August 25, 2005 on a tiny 40 x 40 cm plot of land in a National Park near Bogota. The same chemical agents in the same proportions used in the illicit crop eradication programs were obtained and mixed, and applied a single time.

Day after day, over the course of 26 days, this place was visited and what occurred there was recorded. The project allows one to witness up close the effects of enormous, distant, and invisible actions. It should be noted that it only records the visible effects on plants.