‘It smells like my ranch!’ Diva of dirt Delcy Morelos and her amazing 30-tonne earthworks (opens in new tab)

It sustains all life. It is where we all end up. Yet we treat it appallingly. As her latest enormous mud sculpture looks set to cause a sensation in Britain, the Colombian artist explains why she works with soilThe earth’s cool breath is the first thing that hits me. Scented with clove and cinnamon, it catches my senses by surprise in the dim, while a vast soil sculpture emerges around me as if from a dream, just as the artist intended. I’m contained within its mammoth, terraced walls of redd...