My box is a study based on recording the exact times when I hear the ambulances of the nearby hospital. This project began on March 13, 2020—the first day of the COVID pandemic, when travel restrictions were introduced. I was in Sofia, where I was an Erasmus scholar at the National Academy of Arts. With this work, I wanted to call for a return to the essence of being human: to hear the need for help and to realize the delicate thread of life embodied in the red thread. I also wanted to show textile art as part of artistic exploration, since the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Basque Country does not offer similar courses. My experience in Bulgaria allowed me to see the cultural value of weaving and its possibilities for artistic expression. I focus my attention on the process rather than the aesthetic finish, so it is a completely intuitive action, without me being fully familiar with the technique. Through the universal language of digital codes, the following are shown: 328 hours, 328 stories, 328 deaths, or 328 lives, which I continue to record today.
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Due to her academic training and research in art therapy, her concepts are grounded of the idea of the leading role of the human being and its psyche in therapist work and the organic materials reveals the individual history and personal journey. Through photography, painting and textile materials she takes as a reference the identity processes and emotional movements arising from life experiences. She plays with the limits of art, arousing a debate on the power and place of artistic creation in different socio-cultural contexts, especially in the field of education.