I have always been enchanted by the landscapes. The experience before them makes me feel something that, perhaps, not even being there I would feel.
This interest in observing everyday spaces through new perspectives originates from the potential that the senses have to guide us in reading reality, allowing us to expand it even when we face its most amazing version. To paraphrase the geography of Milton Santos: ‘All that we see, what our vision achieves, is the landscape (…) Not only shapen of volumes, but also of colors, movements, smells, sounds (...)”. And being able to think of landscapes as a crossing is what allows us to recognize that everything is connected.
When I resume my childhood in the neighborhood of Águas Claras, one of the peripheral regions of Salvador thus I realize how the lack of contact with other forms of nature that were hitherto socially unavailable crosses me. Then I understand how the desire for new places of existence than the construction of landscapes gives me the opportunity to work as a work tool, refuge and form of relationship with my own territory.
Firstly, while experiencing the state of suspension obtained by aerial photography, I had explored the landscape from the top of some buildings. Silence, scale and perspective are compositional elements that allow me to reflect on how immersed we are in prefabricated realities and how this socio-historical engineering removes from us the possibility of understanding them in other ways. It is in an attempt to expand these realities that I come to understand the political and fictional densities involved in the construction of this work.
My relationship with the coast and with water also comes from childhood. The sea has always been the most reachable option for our family and although these memories are not so clear, I apprehend the sensation and the movement of the tides, which due to their impermanence and strength bring me something very familiar. In this sense, producing images that tension the differences and similarities between space and nature through the abstraction of the territory itself, allows the construction of visual enigmas that, photographically, transform the tangible into a new reality.