My hands are my heart 1991
My Hands Are My Heart, 1991. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris / Los Angeles
This work was made by the artist by pressing a ball of clay between his hands, at the level of his chest, a process represented in the photograph. Here, a simple relationship of a moldable material with body pressure is shown; as well as how, from a gesture, an object can be transformed. This work was made in an artisan kiln in Cholula, Puebla, in the early 1990s. In the use of malleable materials, Orozco emphasizes a third variable that has nothing to do with the artwork or the object, but rather with the randomness of the moment, and leaves a certain freedom in the works so that they can be randomly modified by their surroundings.