A group of students sit on top of a bus at Kemusu street in Boyolali, Central Java of Indonesia, March 20, 2015 in this picture taken by Antara Foto. (Photo by Yusuf Nugroho/Reuters/Antara Foto)

Balinese girls in traditional costumes gather during a parade for this year's last sundown in Bali island, Indonesia Thursday, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Firdia Lisnawati/AP Photo)

Balinese traditional dancers take selfie as they await the arrival of G20 leaders at Ngurah Rai International airport at Tuban, Badung regency on Indonesia resort island of Bali, on November 13, 2022. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP Photo)

“Misty Rainbow”. A rainbow appears over tea fields in Tangerang Selatan, Indonesia. (Photo by Dani Agus Purnomo/Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather Photographer of the Year Awards)

This picture taken on December 15, 2019 shows three young orangutans after they were rescued by police from illegal wildlife traffickers in Pekanbaru in Riau province, Indonesia. (Photo by Wahyudi/Jefta Images/Barcroft Media)

“People of the River”. This is a Karo tribe family; father, mother, two sisters and two brothers. The tribe, who live along the Omo River in east Africa, incorporate rich symbolism into their rituals by using ornate body art, headdresses and body scarification to express beauty and significance. (Photo by Jatenipat Ketpradit/International Portrait Photographer of the Year)

“The arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and is common throughout the Arctic tundra biome. It is well adapted to living in cold environments. It has a deep thick fur which is brown in summer and white in winter. It averages in size at about 85.3 cm (33.6 in) in body length, with a generally rounded body shape to minimize the escape of body heat. – Wikipedia. (Photo by Trond Eriksen)

Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru, and lives and works in San Jose and Philadelphia, United States. Her recent photographic work is a conspicuous exploration of sensual surfaces in which the body is deliberately confused with nature and nature with the body.