Irene reflects on the interference of mundane materials, such as plastic, and their resulting connection to the environment: the power and tyranny suppressing, invading and crushing the love and respect we owe our planet. This, in reality, translates directly to the love we have for ourselves.

Irene Cruz’s photography epitomizes the idea of the environment as a survivor of an encounter with a human being. A human being that ceased to inhabit the earth in the effort to use and abuse it. But the nature of which she speaks in her pictures is warm, generous and welcoming. It is a nature that is forgiving, like that of a mother who forgives the worst faults of her offspring. Or the look of someone who is slowly, but mercilessly, dying while smiling. Because in its essence, anger never lasts in the face of the will to overcome.

- Andrea Perissinotto