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‘It smells like my ranch!’ Diva of dirt Delcy Morelos and her amazing 30-tonne earthworks

It sustains all life. It is where we all end up. Yet we treat it appallingly. As her latest enormous mud sculpture looks set to cause a sensation in Britain, the Colombian artist explains why she works with soil The earth’s cool breath is the first thing that hits me. Scented with clove and cinnamon, it catches my senses by surprise in the dim, while a vast soil sculpture emerges around me as if from a dream, just as the artist intended. I’m contained within its mammoth, terraced walls of reddish soil and struck by the silence, the peace felt in being held by nothing but earth. Another visitor lies on the ground nearby, contemplating the circular, 12-metre-high structure towering above us. I resist the temptation to stroke it, instead smelling and observing the work, feeling a mixture of curiosity, fear and solace. I’m in Mexico City, inside The Womb Space, a cavernous earthwork by Delcy

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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘It smells like my ranch!’ Diva of dirt Delcy Morelos and her amazing 30-tonne earthworks, It sustains all life. It is where we all end up. Yet we treat it appallingly. As her latest enormous mud sculpture looks set to cause a sensation in Britain, the Colombian artist explains why she works with soil The earth’s cool breath is the first thing that hits me. Scented with clove and cinnamon, it catches my senses by surprise in the dim, while a vast soil sculpture emerges around me as if from a dream, just as the artist intended. I’m contained within its mammoth, terraced walls of reddish soil and struck by the silence, the peace felt in being held by nothing but earth. Another visitor lies on the ground nearby, contemplating the circular, 12-metre-high structure towering above us. I resist the temptation to stroke it, instead smelling and observing the work, feeling a mixture of curiosity, fear and solace. I’m in Mexico City, inside The Womb Space, a cavernous earthwork by Delcy

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‘It smells like my ranch!’ Diva of dirt Delcy Morelos and her amazing 30-tonne earthworksThe Guardian - 2026-05-14T12:03:49+00:00

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