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"Shapes of Earth"

The Eternal sculpture of nature

 

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"Shapes of Earth" is a photographic work born from a reflection on impermanence as an essential condition of existence. Here, landscape elements are represented as "processes": dynamic manifestations of what, at a superficial glance, appears fixed and unchanging over time.

In this selection of images, a constant search for movement and dynamism emerges — through forms, colours, and compositions that restore a fluid quality to the elements depicted. The rocks of a Jordanian desert evoke the undulating motion of the sea; summits lit by the sun catch fire, recalling the nature of flame; rocks with sinuous lines suggest the softness of mud.

Each of these landscapes, though fixed in the photographic act, carries within itself the possibility of transformation — as if it might rapidly evolve into the next. What emerges is a vision in which the qualities of the four elements (earth, water, air, fire) reveal themselves to be interchangeable: sculptural forces, themselves sculpted by time.

Indifferent to our perception, landscapes shift according to rhythms that know no haste — in contrast to the human gaze, which tends to regard them as motionless and eternal.

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