Here and There. Now and Then

With Here and There. Now and Then Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero explores the esparto grass. These extremely resistant grasses shape the Mediterranean landscape, from sun-up to sun-down. Esparto – a seemingly fragile fibre – has in fact been one of the building blocks of the area for millennia, as well as the human cultures where it is found. Its morpho-structural and physiological ability to adapt makes it able to cope with hydric-stress and increasingly hot temperatures – particularly in areas of southern Spain, the setting of previous video ‘El Bosque Encarnado’, where desertification is already taking hold. This grass aids production of mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria, all of them fundamental elements in every ecosystem.