Director, Glenn Lowry: Recaptured Nature was made from the inner tubes of two truck tires.
Artist, Gabriel Orozco: So I got this inner tube, totally damage, very cheap, in a flea market, and then I went to this shop to repair tires. Actually, I went to many of them, because I was asking, this is a special job, I wanted to cut this thing and open it up and then put some tops on it was a very complicated thing. So, nobody wanted to do it until I go to a very kind man who was curious enough to try it for me. So we work together for few days. Patching it by hand very carefully, in a very old machine that he has like an iron. So it was a nice crafty process in this, repairman’s shop. So it was, something different from this man, and for me, it was interesting to work in the place that tires are usually repaired.
I wanted to have this mass of vulcanized rubber that looks like metal, or something mineral. And you know, rubber is a very interesting material is flexible, is coming from oil, the color, I think, is very, very beautiful. And as a flexible material that is inflated, this tension makes it look like a solid thing, like metal. At the same time, making this kind of sphere was a topographical exercise. So, Recaptured Nature, has to do with both recovering the organic essence of the material, and on the other hand, transforming the organic geometry of the piece.