Martha Pachon Rodriguez (Bogotá, Colombia, 1967) after graduating both inPedagogy of Arts and in Fine Arts at the “Surcolombiana” University of Neiva,moved to Italy to complete her ceramic studies in Faenza, one of the mostrepresentative ceramic production centres in Italy. In 1990 she began her career as aprofessor of Art Education, and she taught Sculpture and Design at theSurcolombiana University in Colombia until 1999. Her porcelain sculptures mixingelements of the natural world with legends and folklore from various cultures, oftenevoke sea creatures and the underwater world using slabs of extreme finenessallowing her to obtain stunning transparency and colour effects. For Martha thecreation of each piece is an event which represents a journey into a sacreddimension. The actual making is a passage, a kind of magic cathartic rite, part of anintellectual and conceptual event that needs time, enormous patience, skill, and joy.Through her very personal elegy to slowness, Martha and her work reminds us thatour existence hangs by imaginary and imperceptible threads of relations anddiscoveries: it is up to us to unravel the tangled knots or let nature take itsinscrutable course.