Arbusto ardiente is a performance from the series Growing Images & Talking Weeds, for which Amaia uses the botany manuals she studied during her residency at the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Park in France. Amaia compiles lists which she reads out live, partially concealed amongst plants. The lists are divided into three sections. The first section consists of plant names, which she reads preceded by ‘eres mi… (in English ‘you are my…’). The second comprises morphological characteristics of plants, preceded by ‘me gusta que seas…’ (in English ‘I like that you are…), and the third is made up of the places where they grow, recited as ‘me gusta encontrarte en…’ (in English ‘I like to find you in…’). Freed from the scientific criteria of their botanical classification, and read in a soft, measured and (almost) neutral tone, the lists express the emotional, popular, sexual, colonial and sometimes comical qualities of the language that human beings —scientists, men and Westerners— have projected onto them.

See: Early works, Growing Images & Talking Weeds (2015–), Maleza ardiente (2017), Maleza ardiente (2018), Arbusto ardiente (2019), Sasia sugarretan (2021–), Burning Bush (2021–), Buisson ardent (2024–)