Va2rosa
A collaborative universe in progress
When 2020 pandemic hit I was already in Mars. Not so far as the planet Mars, but in a little part of the Sonoran desert where me and some friends created an art community/ R&D lab we call Mars. After all, if our technology could one day take some humans to Mars, we could just as well use it to try to inhabit the harsh parts of nowadays Earth. A high tech, low cost approach. It’s an exercise in resilience and sustainability, with a lot of space for artistic madness and fun. We hope to share whatever knowledge we gather with our projects' documentation and open source software libraries. It’s a seasonal enterprise, the Martian community is only functional during North Hemisphere Winter time, but it’s a long term one.
My artworks used to be about historical research, tales of world history. The pandemic crisis pushed me into imagining futures I’d like to live in, how not to fall into dystopia. A little bit of joy, playfulness and hope.
Hope you enjoy it,