© Camila Apaez | Guadalajara-based, Mexican artist Camila Apaez’s work primarily consists of hand-built ceramics that investigate intersections between the natural world and the human body. The piece created for this wallcovering explores the internal movements that may occur when one decides to cross a frontier—whether physical or subjective—and the inner experience of crossing but, at the same time, leaving something behind. The border delimits a new area or territory and traces an invisible, sinuous line that divides the “before and after.”

The sculpture was made with clay, oxides, and wild, local clay engobes—or liquified clays—and was photographed unfired to retain the original colors of the engobes.