Encounters
Encounters began with a simple act of observation.
I photograph fragments of the natural world—water in motion, vegetation, stone—sometimes at close range and on a scale that loosens them from their familiar context. Each photograph begins in what was physically present before the camera, yet almost immediately it may resist recognition, hovering between what is known and what has not yet been named.
The original image is then repeated and reflected across the surface of the work. Nine versions meet at their edges and unfold into a continuous visual field. In this encounter with itself, the photograph releases forms that were always latent within it, waiting to be seen.
Water may become mineral, metallic, cellular or cosmic. Stone may turn into architecture, body or mask. A forest may open into a colonnade, a woven structure or an imagined interior. Nothing has been invented within the photograph. The transformation arises from what the camera saw and from the unexpected relationships created when the image is mirrored.
I photograph fragments of the natural world—water in motion, vegetation, stone—sometimes at close range and on a scale that loosens them from their familiar context. Each photograph begins in what was physically present before the camera, yet almost immediately it may resist recognition, hovering between what is known and what has not yet been named.
The original image is then repeated and reflected across the surface of the work. Nine versions meet at their edges and unfold into a continuous visual field. In this encounter with itself, the photograph releases forms that were always latent within it, waiting to be seen.
Water may become mineral, metallic, cellular or cosmic. Stone may turn into architecture, body or mask. A forest may open into a colonnade, a woven structure or an imagined interior. Nothing has been invented within the photograph. The transformation arises from what the camera saw and from the unexpected relationships created when the image is mirrored.
Symmetry introduces order, but it does not still the surface. The work continues to move, shifting between recognition and abstraction, between the familiar and the unknown. The viewer may sense the natural origin of what is seen without ever being able to name it completely.
The title refers not only to the repeated photographs encountering one another, but also to the meeting of matter and light, observation and transformation, image and gaze.
These works arise from a profound connection with the natural world and from a fascination with light as the invisible force that gives form to photography. They emerge through the quiet alchemy that occurs when light touches water, vegetation and stone.
Encounters remains rooted in the visible. Its mystery lies in revealing how much of what surrounds us still escapes our sight.
My work offers another way of seeing what exists, and what we are: a visual reminder that everything is connected and that nothing truly lives in isolation.
The title refers not only to the repeated photographs encountering one another, but also to the meeting of matter and light, observation and transformation, image and gaze.
These works arise from a profound connection with the natural world and from a fascination with light as the invisible force that gives form to photography. They emerge through the quiet alchemy that occurs when light touches water, vegetation and stone.
Encounters remains rooted in the visible. Its mystery lies in revealing how much of what surrounds us still escapes our sight.
My work offers another way of seeing what exists, and what we are: a visual reminder that everything is connected and that nothing truly lives in isolation.
Water Encounters - Encuentros de Agua
Encuentros
No hay vida sin encuentro.
Encuentros nace de un sencillo acto de observación.
Fotografío fragmentos del mundo natural —el agua en movimiento, la vegetación y la piedra— a veces a corta distancia y a una escala que los desprende de su contexto habitual. Cada fotografía parte de aquello que estuvo físicamente ante la cámara y, sin embargo, casi desde el primer instante puede resistirse al reconocimiento, suspendida entre lo conocido y aquello que aún no ha sido nombrado.
La imagen original se reproduce y se refleja sobre la superficie de la obra. Nueve versiones se encuentran en sus bordes y se despliegan en un campo visual continuo. En ese encuentro consigo misma, la fotografía libera formas que siempre estuvieron latentes en ella, esperando ser vistas.
El agua puede volverse mineral, metálica, celular o cósmica. La piedra puede transformarse en arquitectura, cuerpo o máscara. Un bosque puede abrirse como una columnata, un tejido o un interior imaginado. Nada ha sido inventado dentro de la fotografía. La transformación surge de lo que vio la cámara y de las relaciones inesperadas que aparecen cuando la imagen se refleja.
La simetría introduce orden, pero no inmoviliza la superficie. La obra continúa moviéndose, desplazándose entre el reconocimiento y la abstracción, entre lo familiar y lo desconocido. El espectador puede intuir el origen natural de lo que contempla sin llegar nunca a nombrarlo por completo.
El título alude no solo al encuentro de las fotografías repetidas, sino también al encuentro entre la materia y la luz, entre la observación y la transformación, entre la imagen y la mirada.
Estas obras nacen de una profunda conexión con el mundo natural y de una fascinación por la luz como fuerza invisible que da forma a la fotografía. Surgen de la silenciosa alquimia que se produce cuando la luz toca el agua, la vegetación y la piedra.
Encuentros permanece arraigado en lo visible. Su misterio consiste en revelar cuánto de aquello que nos rodea continúa escapando a nuestra mirada.
Mi trabajo propone otra manera de contemplar lo que existe y lo que somos: un recordatorio visual de que todo está conectado y de que nada vive verdaderamente aislado.
Stone Encounters - Encuentros de Piedra
Vegetation Encounters - Encuentros de Vegetación
