Rosalía Salazar is an elementary art educator and visual artist. She blends her passion for gardening with her artistic practice, creating compositions that emphasize a tactile connection between her hands and her materials. By combining alternative photographic processes with her fascination for botanical elements, she produces work that highlights the delicate, often overlooked details of the natural world. Her pieces invite viewers to engage with nature through a renewed and attentive lens. IG: @romaver

My work uses alternative photographic processes to create images shaped by sunlight. Using organic materials—often dead leaves and found fragments—I build layered compositions that move between preservation and decay. I also create acetates from my own photographs, enlarging overlooked details so they take on a quiet monumentality.

I’m drawn to fragility: leaves that crumble, impressions that fade, forms that never fully settle. Suspended in the deep blue of the cyanotype—both calm and vast—these images echo memory as something shifting, shaped by time and exposure.

Through layering and shifts in scale, I explore what is kept, what disappears, and what lingers. These prints hold their subjects in transition—delicate, unresolved, and gently in flux.