diario de verano - Created by anivides
diario de verano is an exploration of neighborhood flora in Tkaronto, focusing on Kensington Market, Parkdale and Wallace – Emmerson, areas we live and move through. Experimentation with abstract movement and the physical, compositional properties of foraged materials, strengthened our community/kinship to the land and each other.
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Artistic practices were explored and shared through gathering rituals, stop motion animation and phytograms, creating complex layers of ourselves intertwined through our latinx identities in this short film. (anivides is Cristal Buemi and Francisca Duran) (2025)
Natural Self Care Series - Created by Cristal Buemi
If we are able to truly be inspired by the beauty in “flaws” that surround us in the natural world, we can begin to make the same connection and effort for ourselves. My work aims to highlight the importance of self-care, and self-love as an act of kindness to promote connectedness and healing within the self, community and land”.
Exhibited as part of MakeRoom’s “Community Kindness Collection” 5 works exhibited across multiple screens at Sankofa Square (April 2024). Animations created at Hielo Air (2021) and Stop Motion Department (2023).
Clay Pigment - Created by Cristal Buemi
Exploring Feminism, the body and abstraction in the South of Spain through clay pigment collected at La Joya Eco Artist Residency. (2023)
Material Exploration #4 - Created by Cristal Buemi
Frame by Frame experimentation with natural gathered materials. Focusing on colour, texture and shape using a macro lens. Created at Artist Residency - HIELO AIR Puerto Rico. (2022)
Sand Exploration - Created by Cristal Buemi
Sand tests using rotoscope and free-hand techniques. Created at Citoplasmas Stop Motion Studio, Barcelona, Spain. (2021)
Birthday Twerk - Created by Cristal Buemi
Rotoscope Loop of a woman twerking. Exhibited as part of The Community Cultivation Collection, Make Room Inc. (2021)
Breathe Stretch Repeat - Created by Cristal Buemi
An animated moment of calmness and reflection using frame by frame animation techniques. As part of an online exhibit "Pandemic Postcards" presented by Harbourfront Centre Toronto (2020). Later exhibited as part of Harbourfront Centre’s CoMotion Festival. (2022)
Frame by Frame experimentation with natural gathered materials. Focusing on colour, texture and shape using a macro lens. Created at Artist Residency - HIELO AIR Puerto Rico. (2020)
Material Exploration #3 - Created by Cristal Buemi
Exploring the Japanese Aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi through Frame by Frame animation. Used as a meditative practice for connection and reflection. First explored during artist residency at ARTSCAPE GIBRALTAR POINT. (2020)
Material Exploration #2 - Created by Cristal Buemi
Collage Forms - Created by Cristal Buemi
A series of various paper, and magazine collages. (2020)
Material Exploration #1 - Created by Cristal Buemi
A reel of a series of loops created in my day to day life all over the
world captured on my phone. An appreciation of the beauty that
surrounds me. (2016- 2020)
chair - Created by Cristal Buemi + Ludwig Camarillo
A chair demonstrates the possibilities contained in its shape through its reflection. The way imagination can affect perception is discovered throughout this journey. In the end, the essence of the chair remains, but our interpretation of it has changed. (2016)
Luno - Created by Cristal Buemi
Stop Motion Animation puppet, and character design. (2016)
Film Scratch - Created by Cristal Buemi
Experimentation with Collage, paint and other various materials on
35mm film. (2015)