Lorena embodies the compulsive idea of accumulation as the result of the continuous and repeated action inherent in every craft.

In my childhood years, I frequented a shoe repair shop near my house. More than a conventional shoemaker's store, it was a place crammed with dried hides and taxidermic creatures, presenting the tragic idea of a zoo frozen in time. The shoemaker was drawn to these things; he collected them, and it was a mysteriously surprising place. I loved going there! In that place, stuffed with shoes, I first observed the concept of accumulation that arises from the practice of certain crafts. Particularly, the backdrop behind the shoemaker, covered in shoes, offered a dull and shadowy texture resulting from the constant accumulation of hundreds of shoe soles, old shoes, bits and pieces, boots, and sandals. Likewise, his corroded and worn workbench managed to be camouflaged by layers and layers of glue, revealing hours and hours of continuous work.

This is how my childhood fantasies were disturbed by these images, and I used to imagine how these textures surprisingly came to life, transforming into undulating beings that ascended the walls of the place, casting their shadows in the evening, and after the day's work was done.