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"Shapes of Earth"

The Eternal sculpture of nature

 

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This photographic work stems from a reflection on impermanence as an intrinsic condition of existence. Everything arises and ceases in continuous flow: what we call "landscapes" are actually processes in constant transformation.

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The landscapes I document are not backdrops, but dynamic manifestations of the four elements interacting: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire—aspects, states, or qualities of the same matter/energy everything is made of. We can see Earth as frozen Fire, Water as Earth that has surrendered form, Air as absence of weight. The combinations are endless, yet none of this is real because if it were real it would be still.

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In landscape there is no stillness, only absence of urgency. Indifferent to speed, landscapes shift according to rhythms that know no haste. With nowhere to go, they have no reason to hurry: they change because it is their nature to do so.

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The photographic act becomes a temporary extraction, a fragment drawn from a continuous process that existed before the shot and continues after. In every image, movement can always be sensed, potentially.

As if each landscape might change in the next instant, as if the photograph were never truly finished but remained suspended between the moment just passed and the one about to arrive.

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