emphasis

This work arises from the fateful meeting with the teacher Omaira Abbey and her class of experimental techniques in photography. With it my visual universe expanded exponentially, opened my eyes to a myriad of possibilities that I had not dared to consider and explore; a whole new universe.

From this experimentation in photography, both analog and digital, it became a passion and an anchor in the middle of the episodes of hypomania I face for my bipolar condition.

The next important moment in this process is Rosalind Krauss and his writings on photography and in particular her writings on the surrealist movement., Phillip Dubois and Foncuberta led me to question every time the role of photography beyond mimicry and documentation and also my goals and concerns as a photographer and image maker.

An omnipresent figure in this whole project was Zenaida Osorio, a professor I admire and consider a friend and a major influence, someone who made me aware of many aspects of the image, its construction, its uses, its circuits of distribution, and so on. That is why the reflections about my role and stereotypes are so important and are part of this project.

And as an amalgam of these influences and interests I tried to build a series of images without being literal in an effort to bring on all these elements and melted as a coherent corpus visually and theoretically, a set of images which will speak for me and be able to challenge others or simply have a good aesthetic quality.

scope

These art pieces are displayed in two forms, one on each pole: a corpus of talbotipes produced as a product of this experiment and a digital book.

An unique and not reproductible piece surrounded by an aura like the works of the nineteenth century and another one which enables unlimited reproduction, maybe is a personal way to paid tribute to dole the huge debt that I, like all visual artists, have with Walter Benjamin.

In addition to this website that is home to the project and allow others to approach it and, hopefully, to nourish it.

methodology

Being able to go beyond my limits, dissociate myself purely mimetic intentions and be able to expand my horizons as a creator of images is the main achievement of this project. To that I also add the knowledge gained by consulting bibliographies, and authors who have thought and written about the genesis of the photographic image.

For me the main function of the university is providing the support and tools to define a methodology and work ethic that allows the development of projects, work, research, etc.. For people like me who do not fit the classic paradigm, that is the only way to cope in a world with little room for difference.

So I developed my own methods and processes, even when I start the construction of an image I start from the words in other's texts, ideas written by me, that's my point of origin and from it I came to think and produce visually.

Therefore I constantly resorts to conceptual maps, Gantt charts, notes on walls to capture what interests me, what I find, what I feel I'm missing and eventually refine it towards a more concise train of thoughts.