The photo-performance work captures the moment of privacy one experiences when submerged in thought. The character stands surrounded by an imaginary garden, which features a textile from the period of Jean Baptiste Réveillon's French toile, providing the context for a sensorial experience.
In the words of curator Alasdair Foster: "The ‘landscapes’ of artist Cecilia Paredes draw upon and articulate an interior experience. Her work with fabric designs began when she moved from Costa Rica to the USA. The predicament of the migrant is to become subsumed into the patterns of another culture, another way of life. To survive, one must blend in and learn to be something else, someone new. But are we lost to ourselves as we dissolve into the alien landscapes of the new? These are the questions raised by her images. The disappearing act is in the eye of the beholder. We have to work harder to perceive how she inhabits and harmonizes with (while remaining distinct from) the florid patterns and stylized foliage. The form holds the truth; the pattern provides the context. And it is our evolved sense of self-preservation, repurposed to consider the internal lives of others, through which we have the potential for true insight."