Sodi has described his creative process as controlled chaos that makes something completely unrepeatable and unique. In his most celebrated body of work, the artist mixes raw pigment with sawdust, wood, pulp, and natural fibers to create the dense surfaces of monochrome paintings. As the layers of material dry, fissured landscapes form without the guidance or intervention of the artist. Sodi's sculptural process reflects traditions of his Mexican heritage. At his studio, Casa Wabi, in Oaxaca, he uses raw earth clay to create kiln-fired cubes, spheres, and bricks. Stacked into columns as minimalist sculpture or assembled as a field or wall, these projects range in scale from architectural installations to earthworks. Sodi also collects solidified volcanic magma from the Ceboruco volcano to make rock sculptures. These fragments are coated in a ceramic glaze and precious metals, uniting geological processes with art-making techniques. This book reflects Sodi's distinct material processes, with essays detailing his relationship to Oaxacan and wabi-sabi aesthetics, as well as his engagement with artistic traditions ranging from minimalism to arte povera to land art.

After having it recommended to him by friend, A.J.A. Symons read Frederick Rolfe's "Hadrian the Seventh" in 1925 and found himself entranced by the novel and by its mysterious and all-but-forgotten author. This book is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a talent for self-destruction, but it is also a self-portrait, a study of the obsession and sympathy that inspires the biographer's art. "Siguiendo la recomendacion de un amigo, en 1925 A.J.A. Symons leyo "Hadrian the Seventh" y quedo anonadado por la obra y por su misterioso y practicamente olvidado autor. Este libro es un retrato graciosisimo y desgarrador del excentrico Frederick Rolfe, artista, escritor, y aspirante frustrado al seminario con un verdadero talento para la destruccion propia., pero es tambien un auto-retrato, un estudio de la obsesion y la simpatia que inspiran el arte del biografo."