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A flor de piel
Rebecca Routman

To feel a flor de piel in Spanish is to feel it so intensely, it goes beyond the skin—raw, almost painfully alive. Nature speaks in textures, rhythms, and colors. Its ancient wisdom moves through our pores like the breath of leaves, an embodied sensation that awakens memory and emotion. This project explores our visceral connection with the living world. We share a mystical bond of kinship with plants, animals, and landscapes—a connection often obscured by modern paradigms of individualism and detachment. I return to the familiar feelings evoked by human and more-than-human presence in the environments where I grew up. A reminder of how sensorial intimacy reveals our vastness and fragility—of being everything, and nothing. Like a family album made of earth, skin, and memories. Rejecting the colonial binary that frames tropical forests as either Edenic paradise or hostile green inferno, A flor de piel centers on the vulnerability of these ecosystems, now threatened by extractive practices and emotional disconnection. It is an invitation: to feel the earth, not just observe it. To see ourselves as a part—intimately woven into the whole.

Rebecca Routman is an artist and activist whose work examines the connections between social justice, environmental issues, and the power dynamics shaping our world. Using photography and research, she explores themes of colonialism, migration, identity, and the relationship between humans and nature. Her practice challenges established systems, advocates for environmental justice, and seeks new ways to understand our place in the world.​

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