and when the wind stops blowing?, 2024
colored pins on 100 superposed coffee filter papers
60 x 45 cm
When I look at the wind forecast images off the coast central America, several cyclones catch my eye. Some more intense than others, the vast majority of them form in the oceans. On the weather maps, their arrows move in a circular way, all in a clockwise direction, and they contain a sequence of colors that represent their intensity. I notice that this force dissipates until it reaches the center, since there is almost no wind inside the cyclone; the “eye of the typhoon” is the safest place to be in extreme situations.
At the moment I'm analyzing these forecasts, the cyclones don't exist yet, nor have they formed. They are just assumptions in an equation based on current atmospheric perceptions and calculations of future probabilities.
I decided to create a “cartography of the expected” by mapping the wind that is yet to come. I use two languages: direction and speed. The direction is represented by the overlapping papers, meticulously calculated to trace the circular path of the wind. Speed is represented by the colored pins that trace and classify its path.