THE HANDS BEHIND IT

Who cuts
what you receive.

Behind every box there are people with a name, a trade and a life up in the highlands. Every so often we sit down with one of them, ask, and record what they tell us. These conversations stay here, in their own words.

Roberto Samperio in the plot, Ahuatitla, San Luis Potosí

October 2026

The offers he turned down

Roberto has been offered work in the city several times. Twenty-six years in the trade bring offers. He has turned down every one.

Roberto Samperio · Cutter and sorter · Ahuatitla, San Luis Potosí

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Why we record this

Foliage travels nine thousand kilometres and reaches a florist in Europe without anyone knowing where it came from or who cut it. We thought that distance was worth closing.

We publish a new conversation every six weeks. All of them are recorded with the person’s permission, and they decide what gets told.

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