Sea imprints
2015-2018

    The project “Sea prints” (2015-2018) comes from a continuous process of natural engagement, the immersion in the sea (Atlantic Ocean), in different moments and with different media. With the intention of capturing images within the continuous wave flux I enter in the sea with an inked plate – the waves remove part of the ink, leaving their imprint. The resulting images have a direct coincidence with the forms assumed by the wave in the moment of impact, overcoming the condition of representation to become a presentation of an action. They work both as documents of presence and a symbolic transference of the creative act to Nature where the body is a vehicle for the natural image to appear.
     On a later stage, a new insertion on the maritime flux is given through the use of the cliché-verre technique introducing transparent surfaces and the possibility of heliography. From distance, the creation of multiples is envisioned as a way of continuation of the collected waves, apart from the initial experience.
The images acquire their own natural mutability, which manifests itself in different temporalities: the instant interaction of light on the metal plates; the participation of sunlight in the cliché-verre process; the formation of salt crystals which invokes a longer time.
     The identification with natural patterns of interaction and the creation of images that consider a natural agency allows us to rethink relations of estrangement, promoting a different way of being in Nature.