PARTIALLY PROTECTED | 2022

1 - Sketch on Trace Paper, Acrylic, 10”x13”x 1.75”

2 - Manipulated Topography/Contour Model, Foam, Acrylic, Opals, 36” x 24” 8”

3 - Large Format Photograph on Vinyl, 7’x4’

4 - Installation View

5 - Digital Collage

6 - Location Diagram

7 - Site Section

8 - Altered Archive Images

9 - Model Mesh

Part of the group exhibition MEMORY TRACES

Curator - Elizabeth Rooklidge

Location - La Jolla Historical Society

Andrade considers how the site has changed over time, both in its geology and inhabitants. For this work, he created a CNC-routed model of the reserve. The sculpture is both a contour and a terrain model, manipulated to reveal gradual shifts in the site’s topography. The opals nestled on the model’s plateau suggest both time— the stones take millions of years to form— and value, the monetary and cultural worth assigned to their rarity and beauty.

Absent from the landscape are its inhabitants, both its current residents and the many Indigenous Kumeyaay people who lived on and cared for the land long before European settlers arrived. For hundreds of years, the Kumeyaay had eaten the pine’s seeds, used its resin for medicinal treatments, made baskets from its needles, and successfully cared for the tree and its habitat. Their displacement and genocide marked the coming changes to the land that would leave the Torrey Pine endangered. Ultimately, Andrade’s work asks, What does it mean for land to be protected?