- Size: 3859px x 5649px 300dpi
- Camera: Beseler 45M Camera Back
- Lens: Rodenstock Rodagon 150mm 5.6
- Film: Ilford Ortho Plus Sheet Film 4x5"
- Exposures: Two
Patterns.
Beauty intervenes in our digital realms. Consciousness becomes molecular among the pixels, reappearing instantly. The generic image of the flower is multiple by nature. It becomes, through virtual search, new proportions, infinite petals until beauty is complete.
Rhizomancy.
Rooted in the rich Andean wine culture, my approach arises from the urgency to explore organic processes, both in image creation and in the technical development processes. To this end, I established a photographic laboratory specifically adapted for large format printing and organic analog development, using wine as the main developing agent.
As a result of experimentation with a variety of sensitive materials, including fiber-based photographic paper, homemade and commercial emulsions on fabric; I explored different varietals and stages of wine maturation, defining the specific characteristics exhibited in each piece.
The photographic imagery of Rhizomancy represents Andean roots, recovers fragments and zonal geometries, captured in macro photography settings, constructed in the studio, unfolding a virtual geography. This combination of intangible elements resonates with a deeply current, emergent, and ever-evolving emotionality.
The uniqueness of each work manifests in various directions; through the superimposition of multiple factors, both creator and viewer share in the emergence of an unrepeatable work. The monotypic quality of each piece results from multiple exposures, perspectivism, and organic variables such as the coloration of the paper by the wine. In Rhizomancy, unique works are born.
Concepts.
Explorations of Non-Chronological Time.
Through a series of monumental compositions, Rhizomancy invites us to immerse ourselves in a virtual geography where time unfolds, and the boundaries between past, present, and future dissolve in a rhizomorphic weave of immersive images. A perspectivist space emerges, with multiple exposures through layers of negatives, creating diverse virtual territories of time, merging them into a single expression.
Experimenting with the qualitative aspect of time, it exercises intuition, provoking unexpected encounters at different moments of the creative process. The subtlety of the monochromatic composition explores the cavity of emotions, balancing the aesthetic equation towards the intangible.
Depersonalization and Deconstruction.
A process of depersonalization deconstructs the bodies and the camera itself, disappearing in the instant to project towards the essence of things. This de-composition of the concept of now invites us to contemplate other points of view, disappearing to reappear in the other, navigating the vastness of the instant, recovering sensory traffic.
Creation of Virtual Spaces.
Through macro photography and multiple chronological shots, it creates virtual spaces that make the original scale ambiguous, proposing a temporal paradox in which the work existed before being tangible and will exist despite never having been. This instant, free from chronology, is, in itself, always and with each of its qualities. Reaching the creative act in pure time.
Note: Concurrent with the minting of this NFT collection, a physical exhibition is being held at the Máximo Arias Photography Space in Mendoza, Argentina. This exhibition features 1-meter long pieces developed using red Malbec wine, as the negatives scanned in this series.