This piece is part of an ongoing investigation into the relationship between perception, landscape, and consciousness. Rachel inserts two mirrored planes into the natural environment as sensory portals that, far from altering the landscape, expand and redefine it.

Utah , an emblematic land for Land Art since the 1970s —with monumental works such as Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels —becomes a territory of resonance for this contemporary intervention. This tradition of direct dialogue with the landscape has been an essential reference point in the development of Valdés ‘s installation practice , in his quest to create spaces where art does not merely represent nature, but rather activates it as a perceptual and emotional experience.

In “ Eden , ” reflection functions as both an optical phenomenon and a philosophical tool: by projecting the sky, water, and earth onto polished surfaces, it proposes a visual meditation on the duality between the visible and the invisible, the external and the internal. The viewer is invited into a state of active presence, where observation becomes an act of self-knowledge .

The work embodies an ephemeral architecture of contemplation: an instant suspended in time in which nature becomes a mirror of being. Valdés thus continues to explore, through a poetics of silence and geometry, new ways of inhabiting the world and connecting with what is essential.