Astrid’s work captivated us the moment we saw it for the first time. We found ourselves gawking at her pieces, a long and deep self-absorbing feeling. We felt the strength of the symbolism hidden between its shapes and colors and were eager to know more of the secrets behind them. Infinite loops - in painting, ceramics; in ceramics, painting ... The snakes, the long braids, the stones... They were all things that resonated within us. We felt like her work connected to the past and present of paloma wool in many ways.

We were lucky enough to sit down with Astrid through a zoom meeting where she told us about what her work meant to her, the strength of her experiences and the stories of her family within her images. One of the stories she told us was how her mother and her sisters used to meet in their dreams at night. They would agree on a location before going to sleep, and interact in their dreams together, sharing how they had each experienced their meeting the next day. This was the abstraction we looked into characterizing while photographing this capsule, the visual interpretation of two dimensions and the crossing between an awake reality to the ones we have in dreams.