CORN SQUARES

Installation view at Yale University MFA studio

CORN SQUARES
Corn sprouts, paper.

Corn sprouts are growing out of square pieces of paper. All that they need to grow is to be watered. An intense sweet smell fills the room. The square configuration seems arbitrary. Ironically it resembles the patches of our modern agricultural landscape.

The process of growth is so strong and fast, so full of life. Watching it is captivating; but there is no permanency to any of the continuously changing phases within this life process. The need to preserve that very perfect "moment", to stop it in time, to control it, led me to the use of preserved animals in my later works.

1997
- Dhaliwal, Sarindar. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso.” In Of Mudlarkers and Measurers, 13–22. Ottawa: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1997.

1993
- “Maria Fernanda Cardoso”. In Primer Salón Municipal de Artistas Invitados Latinoamericanos : Coloquio, Ideas y Contextos En El Arte Latinoamericano Actual, 19–22. Montevideo: Museo Municipal Juan Manuel Blanes, 1993.

1992
- Mosquera, Gerardo., Carolina, Ponce de León and Rachel, and Weiss. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso.” In Ante America, 24. Bogota: Banco de la República and Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, 1992.

1990
- “Maria Fernanda Cardoso.” In Arte Colombiano de Los 80’s: Obras Tridimensionales. Bogota: Centro Colombo Americano, 1990.