These figures and objects arise from waste that I find. I use them as raw material, giving them new life and granting them renewed meaning. This is not something innovative in the artistic realm; in the 20th century, notable figures in the West inaugurated this practice within art. The selection of these discards and what I do with them challenges my gaze and my mind. The way I present them influences how their essence is revealed, showing us their hidden potential and allowing us to see beyond the visible. Through this gesture, my intention is to invite us to reflect on the workings of our mind, exposing, through a tangible example, how the concepts we have internalized condition our understanding of reality. This creation suggests to us that what we perceive can be more than we initially believe: an object that has value due to its utility can detach from its original function, and what we consider garbage can acquire new meaning as a work of art. It all depends on our ability to detach ourselves from preconceived notions and allow things to express their truth from a different perspective. This process involves expanding our viewpoint, discovering beauty and consciously appreciating the inherent truth in each material form, in its time of being, and its constant process of transformation. Reality is revealed to us according to how we perceive it, and like any skill, it must be exercised. Seeing something we consider waste with renewed eyes is an opportunity to question our concepts and expand our perception. Everything is more than what our judgments limit. Our challenge is to access a mind that does not discriminate, one that allows us to find beauty where others see uselessness and redefine the parameters of utility. "We are filled with cosmos and empty of permanent and separate identity" (TNH). Recently, a new perspective on matter illuminated me. It is one of the contemplations proposed by Thich Nhat Hanh in the "Diamond Sutra" about the relationship between living beings and inert matter. One of the nuns observed (in my words): "All objects, thousands of years ago, were rain, forests... and today, the atoms of a printer are something that is not at its best, with no option to be any other way. Seeing matter in the light of interbeing fills us with reverence and gratitude, transforming our destructive and consumptive attitude. Even things we consider 'toxic' or 'ugly' (like asphalt or bricks) also come from deep within the earth." These reflections, nourished by other arts and Japanese concepts where attitude redefines matter, led me to the project: "Aroma of Kintsugi."