The environment. Sea, forest, rock, sky

Human history has a long history. It starts in the groves, passes through the caves and then settles in the banks and in small villages until it reaches the city, where many people decided to retire to live there. The city is the place of great events and demonstrations, the place where humanity has evolved and progressed. To do this, it was necessary to destroy and damage an entire world that had accompanied us for thousands of years. Nature has been the biggest victim. We have expelled it from the city, and this fact has turned our cities into a practically mineral place: cement and asphalt.

Nature transformed into a reminiscence of the past, a trace of what it was.

The starting point of this project is to look for the remains of nature and its language that still survive in the city, and to give them visibility. Treat nature with the relevance it deserves. So, I take the four elements as a reference

and I represent them metaphorically with images of sea, forest, rocks and sky.

I have found the images in two different ways: in the case of the sea and the sky, while I am stuck in a place, the images, which transit, are formed in front of me. As for the forest and the rocks, I am the one who wanders around looking for the images, until I find them where they are waiting for me planted and already shaped. The project oscillates between the passive gaze (the one that waits) and the active gaze (the one that searches).

Through the photographs I fragment an ensemble, isolate it and emphasize its details and textures. Later, I stamp them on paper previously burnished with authentic gold leaf which, symbolically, illuminates nature, enhances it, makes it venerable and almost sacralizes it.

With these images, so lit and crowded, a whole series of questions come to my mind to try to understand them. Does the sea have feelings? And the rock, does it have a conscience? Does heaven have a soul? And the forest, does it have sensitivity?

Barcelona, 2016-2018