Dry Season Index

The Dry Season Index is an installation that examines drought not only as a climatic phenomenon but as a layered ecological and cultural condition. Through a sequence of four stages — Residual Moisture, Seasonal Dryness, Structural Dryness, and Exhaustion — the work traces the gradual transformation of a landscape under the pressures of climate change and human intervention.

The installation unfolds across three material registers: plants, soil/stones, and anthropogenic intervention. Living vegetation slowly dries into fragile skeletal forms, fertile soil becomes fragmented mineral residue, and human presence evolves from minor traces to a dramatic accumulation of industrial debris and toxic waste.

By organizing these elements into a systematic visual index, the work echoes both scientific classification and archaeological display. The installation invites viewers to read the landscape as an archive of environmental memory, where dryness becomes not only a symptom of ecological crisis but also a record of human responsibility.

A spatial index of environmental depletion. Through four stages of dryness — Residual Moisture, Seasonal Dryness, Structural Dryness, and Exhaustion — the installation traces the gradual transformation of a living landscape into an exhausted terrain, where plants, soil, and human remnants reveal the layered impact of climate and human intervention.

Materials: Plants-Soil/Stones-Human industrial Junk

Dimensions: 300 (L) x 100 (W) x 200 (H) cm.