We live in a time when many plant and animal species are under threat of extinction, and human actions are the main cause of its accelerated rate. However, it seems that public services and community values also fall under this same threat. This was one of the starting points for the artwork Cuevas developed for the Skissernas Museum at Lund University.

As the central element of the installation, Cuevas set up a birch tree with an old mailbox nailed to it. She then designed postcards that visitors could send to this mailbox for free. On the tree’s trunk, there was a vulture and, in one of the corners of the installation, an endangered wolf. Both taxidermized animals were loaned by the Zoological Museum, which was rele- vant for Cuevas’ statement since it was one of the university institutions that was scheduled to be closed.

Using several hundred magazines and clippings from National Geographic, Cuevas combined images of natural landscapes with fragments of advertisements for cars, watches, and oil companies. Cuevas’ conceptual collage unveils an image of nature as a commodity, something that can be bought and sold as an “experience” or as a “resource.”

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