Diego Miró-Rivera has always been drawn to objects and spaces that others overlook. Cigarette butts, chunks of melting snow, and Texas mountain laurel seeds are among the materials the Austin artist has used. Miró-Rivera, 24, draws on the natural world to create works that are often massive in scale. For one piece, he simply stood in different places in a dry lake bed in rural Utah, using his feet to leave hundreds of precisely aligned footprints on the sand. To create another huge piece of land art, he trudged for more than five miles across three snow-covered soccer fields in Brooklyn; his looping path became a huge drawing that he then photographed from a helicopter. His latest work may be his most ambitious yet. “Cicada Paintings,” on…

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