For his ceramic practice, Mauro often draws from the very distinctive memory of picking seashells as a child. Growing up in Madrid, but spending his summers on the coast of Galicia, the shells and objects that the waves would wash ashore were charged with meanings that escaped him. Not only did they arrive from a realm inaccessible to him, often they would come with crusted structures, seaweeds attached, amalgamated, battered by time and tides.

The natural world, in its broadness, is still an inspiration, but Mauro stays away from the literal. Growing patterns, movement traces, how a slug climbs a step or how a wave folds… Nature is a departure point to go looking for that feeling of awe particular of a child, when the world was bigger, mysterious and uncertain. In his work, Mauro tries to capture that sense of wonder, subverting categories, complicating classification, and widening the realm of possibility.