Ana Martinez Orizondo

The Artist

photograph, 2022

As I walk thru my old community in south Florida, where my Mom has lived for over twenty years, I am observing it thru fresh eyes, new perspective. Not just because I have changed, but so has the community. Yet, the resilience of our natural world is astounding. The deeper my attention to it, the wiser the teaching. Every day I walk the same paths, and every day my awareness heightens. I had not seen this particular tree before, its markings, until today. Yet, it was here all along and, it has a story to share. I am paying attention.

Excerpt from Richard Heinberg’s Think Resilience course: "Sustainability helps us understand, in a more general sense, our extremely complex relationship with the natural world, and the consequences of getting that relationship wrong."
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2022
  • Ana Martinez Orizondo

Reverberations I (diptych)

Soft and pan pastels on two panels of 19 x 25 shizen paper

My first artwork of 2022 is part of my tree stories series and, in some way, is the second book, or a new chapter. Not sure yet… but all I know is that it is a new beginning.  This piece references concepts of trans-form(ation), cause and effect, and time in development. It is also my submission to the @whatsnextforearth Thinking in Systems art call.“We intuitively know that systems are more than the sum of their parts. But digging deeper into the insights of systems theory—going beyond the basics—can pay great dividends both in our understanding of the world and in our strategic effectiveness at making positive change happen.”
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2021
  • Ana Martinez Orizondo

Can you feel me?

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Part of my tree stories series, a short visual poem
My tree stories (whether a pastel drawing, photo or video) begin by being present during meditative walks in nature. Whether in an urban setting like Central Park, NYC or the Mashomack Preserve in Shelter Island, NY, my senses become hyper-aware around trees. My spirit attunes to specific trees, stumps, branches, trunks and the stories they have to tell.
These visual stories reference animism, deep ecology and the mystical power of trees and everything around them. Whether a stone, stick, fungi, leaves or grass, its complete composition makes up a unified, sacred space of transcendence and transformation. I am most intrigued by severed trees and their broken-openness, for it is in that state that I can see into their soul. A soul in a continuum to its next form.
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2021
  • Ana Martinez Orizondo

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