The Brazilian artist Christina Oiticica is known for using an exotic neo-concretism technique that is reminiscent of both land art and eco art - a technique that allows nature’s elements to act upon her works.

During a stay in the French Pyrenees, the artist didn't have enough indoor space to work in and started to paint outside. As the canvases were large and the ink still wet Oiticica couldn’t roll them up so she left them outside overnight. When she returned the next day, leaves, seeds and insects had fallen on the paintings and had adhered to the ink. At that moment Oiticica realized that somehow nature interfered in her work. It was an insight that changed the course of her career.

It was then that she developed her unique technique, to bury her paintings in the ground, turning nature into her partner. Oiticica “plants” her paintings to track the “germination” of work through the direct action of the environment.

Generally, Oiticica leaves her canvases "planted" for a period of nine months (the cycle of a pregnancy) or for one year (cycle of the four seasons).