Palmas de Cera, Pijao presents wax palm forest photography documenting Colombia's national tree—towering endangered palms creating distinctive high-altitude landscape representing both natural heritage and conservation urgency. Winograd's portrait of trees captures Quindío wax palms' essence: their extraordinary height and cultural significance making them impossible to ignore within Colombian landscape archive. The work seeks path between these iconic palms, examining historical and personal archives where they represent roots of Colombian visual identity. This photograph weaves visual connections reflecting on interdependencies between national identity and natural preservation, generating emotions about how protecting endangered ecosystems means preserving cultural heritage. The image helps reflection on belonging to whole where saving distinctive trees becomes act of maintaining ecological and cultural continuity.
 
The artist looks for a path between tangled branches. Reconfiguring a personal archive of diverse Colombian landscapes, experimenting with a variety of printing materials to reconstruct a whole from these fragments, recreating a forest in the center of Bogotá. Wynograd also examines a historical archive of landscapes, the roots of his own vision. He believes that the old mimetic dream of photography is still alive. These exercises aim to weave a series of visual connections and reflect on the complex web of interdependencies between humans and nature. If there is a light of hope in the midst of overlapping crises, it is the awareness that we all belong to a whole. Perhaps these photographs can help in that reflection.
 
Wax palm forest photography documenting Colombia's endangered national tree—iconic Pijao landscape preservation fragment. Palmas de Cera from Enjambre by Miguel Winograd. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.