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The selection of works on paper in this exhibition belong to these plant journals, begun during the Covid pandemic when the artist was living in Tokyo. The series evolved as part of a ritual whereby Orozco collected leaves from his surroundings, a practice he continued when he travelled to Mexico City to work on an ambitious public project to transform Chapultepec Park. Orozco’s process involved pressing the leaves directly into the notebooks’ pages, layering these imprints or superimposing them with his own drawings rendered in gouache, tempera, ink and graphite. The fibrous surface of the …