Public intervention was always the preferred way for my graphic pieces to circulate. I photographed my spoon-printed works, against the #stayhome proclamation, in Mexico City in March and April 2020, and posted them on social media so they could be seen. My intention was that photographing the very act of street art in an unprecedented quarantine setting could amplify its meanings. Besides, I was stranded far from home, and I did not know what to do or where to stay.

The photographs showed a woodcut immersed in a desolate urban landscape of ambulances and old posters from the Taller de Gráfica Popular. The pandemic had just begun, and although I was teaching from my phone, I had plenty of time to wander, in another country and in a half-apocalyptic context.

From one day to the next, thanks to a humanitarian flight, I found myself locked in a quiet Rosario that smelled of burning. Ashes were falling.

As soon as I finished the strict quarantine and lockdown, I went out to see the river. The burning was blatant, the wild land was on fire, and clouds of smoke lent themselves to documenting it together with a graphic piece that would denounce the environmental disaster.

On July 25, 2020, a group of environmentalists led by the Multisectorial por la Ley de Humedales (a coalition demanding a wetlands law) blocked the Rosario–Victoria bridge. The protest was highly controversial, as we were at a peak wave of the pandemic. So I went to the bridge putting up handmade stickers that I had engraved on styrene, a plastic with a density similar to "high-impact" plastic that yields softly to the burin, using the same plates I had brought back from Mexico and used to make the stickers there. The image showed the horizon on fire, a bird dying in the river waters and many lines (almost the only resource we relief engravers have) suggesting a dense mass of smoke. Also following the concept of the stickers I made while stranded, I added, in a Broadway-style typeface, the text "Ciudad de humo". Although the city was literally engulfed in smoke, I tried to amplify its meaning through a phrase used to refer to false promises. In this case I wanted to denounce the ineptitude of our governments. The same day I posted a video and a photo with the hashtags #hijosdeputa #ciudaddehumo #ecocidio. More than a year has passed and the wetlands are still burning, putting at risk the lives of the flora and fauna on the islands, the health of their inhabitants and the future.