Personal Topographies
Red Moon Eclipse, 2023 - image size: 156 x 120cm
Wave Study I, 2018 - image size: 228 x 142cm
Pacific Clouds, 2019 / 2025 - image size: 172 x 120cm
Holden Luntz Gallery, The Vibrancy of Color & Light exhibition, 2025
Moonlight over the Pacific, 2019 - image size: 172 x 120cm
Personal Topographies Looking at the current state of the World under a poetic and analytical vision, this project explores the concept of time / space and the grey areas between art, science, technology, history and politics.
Adopting an aesthetic that brings us back to the early days of photography - film plates and large format negatives - here, each large scale digital negative is slowly (mathematically) constructed from several long exposure detail photographs (between 10 to 30 in average) captured over long time periods,
The project challenges the popular assumption that photography simply (mechanically) captures and renders fragments of time into reality. The time passages depicted in this series are somehow augmented, reversed and abstracted. These landscapes are gently created like paintings, like expressions from the artist inner vision and emotions.
Within the layers of the seascapes, the viewers are invited to observe microscopic details among the scenes, for example: almost invisible blue dots (floating buoys) near the horizon serving as a navigation marks or tiny start traces in the sky suggesting the long passages of time. In other words, little clues that hope to provoke thoughts and raise questions about time / space and our relationship with the planet, including: migration, borders, freedom, climate, nature and the vital importance of the oceans in sustaining life on Earth.
The final results are beautiful and strange in the level of painterly detail, mark making, and tonal range. They exist between the imaginary space of a contemporary painting contrasting with an old analogue negative created by the early pioneers of the medium with their large view cameras.
These large (mostly moonlight) constructed pieces hope to offer the viewers moments of respite in our chaotic World.
Volcanic Islande, 2018 - image size: 165 x 120cm