Description
Karla Herencia’s work addresses environmental degradation, inspired by Costa Rica’s coastal landscapes. She collects discarded plastic and industrial debris, inspiring paintings, sculptures and mixed-media installations that reflect on the complex relationship between human invention and nature.
Influenced by the shifting oceanic and tectonic dynamics of her environment, Herencia explores themes of the body, territory, and environmental crisis.
In Pasaje Líquido (Liquid Passage), Herencia presents a single wave filling the full height of the canvas — deep teal, darkening towards black at its core, cresting in white foam at the top. She does not describe this large Costa Rican wave painting as a seascape. “The wave that appears here is not decoration or landscape,” Herencia writes. “It is a tunnel, a threshold, a liquid passage between states of being.”
The work emerged from a period of contemplation about life, death and existence, thought through via a life spent alongside the ocean. The colour was found rather than chosen — it is, in her words, the colour of what is alive and, at the same time, the colour of mystery. Drawing on the idea, held across many ancient coastal cultures, that the sea connects worlds rather than separates them, the wave becomes a threshold, a body with its own presence. “This wave is enormous,” she writes, “because so is what we do not know.”
Framing not included.
Shipping: This artwork will be rolled for shipment.
