This project emerges from a personal artistic process and an intimate search around the image and its narrative potential. Within this exploration, the colloquial writing of Mexican author Juan Rulfo, particularly his work The Burning Plain (El Llano en llamas), becomes both a point of departure and a territory of resonance. First published in 1953, this collection of stories, set in an arid, rural, and deeply human Mexico, still retains a social and poetic relevance that continues to resonate today.
The book is composed of sixteen linoleum prints, each connected to a phrase taken from the different stories in the collection. The images do not seek to illustrate the text, but rather to establish a dialogue with it, translating its atmospheres, silences, and tensions into graphic language, where the synthesis of line and the contrast inherent to printmaking allow for an exploration of memory, absence, and the inner landscape that runs through Rulfo’s work.