The environment. Sea, forest, rock, sky

The history of humanity has a long history. It begins in the groves, passes through caves and, later, settles in huts and small villages until reaching the city, a place where many people decided to settle down to live there. The city is the place of great events and manifestations, the place where humanity has evolved and progressed. To do this, it has been necessary to destroy and damage an entire world that had accompanied us for thousands of years. Nature has been the great victim. We have expelled it from the city, and this fact has turned our cities into a practically mineral landscape: 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 search for the remains of nature and its language that still survive in the city, and to give them visibility. To treat nature with the relevance it deserves. Therefore, I take as a reference the four elements

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 standing still in one place, the images, which pass by, take shape in front of me. As for the forest and the rocks, it is I who passes by looking for the images, until I find them where they are waiting for me, already formed and planted. The project oscillates between the passive gaze (the one that waits) and the active gaze (the one that seeks).

Through photographs, I fragment a whole, isolate it and emphasize its details and textures. Later, I print 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 intense and crowded, a whole series of questions come to my mind to try to understand them. Does the sea have feelings? And does the rock have a conscience? Does the sky have a soul? And does the forest have sensitivity?

Barcelona, 2016-2018