Collaboration with artist Pedro Mecinas (Dhos) in the Cabanyal-Canyamelar maritime district of Valencia.

Dimensions: 10m x 3.5m
Technique: Spray paint.
Surface: Exterior walls of an electrical substation.
Execution: Tools for laying out and marking construction and geometric elements, construction rulers, string and chalk.

Arrelat (Rooted)
1. adj. A person who is very attached to the place where they were born or have lived.

Simone Well said that ‘putting down roots is perhaps the most important and ignored need of the human soul. It is one of the most difficult to define. A human being has roots by virtue of their real, active and natural participation in the existence of a community that keeps alive certain treasures of the past and certain premonitions of the future.’

In today’s globalised and capitalised world, it is these roots that are gradually disappearing. In exchange, cities are no longer lived in as communities – and humanity – but are consumed as if they were just another commercial product. Leaving aside the local and obtaining soulless ‘things’ in return.

Text and photography: Pedro Mecinas