The blank circle | 2020At the MET in New York there’s a drawing representing Atlas stooped while carrying an empty sphere. On the sphere surface, the author drawn no representation of the world; no images, nor signs, coordinates, colors. This original drawing inspired me the making of this work, where images are devices for a travel through an imaginary cosmography. By means of a series of minimal manual actions, I have manipulated the photographic surface in order to evoke other representations of the world, where geometric elements like dots (pierced), lines (etched) and surfaces (folded and ripped) create signs for another space. Similar to constellations, these abstract images become real matter by joining nearby dots with simple lines. The signs impressed on paper are transformed into patterns and geometries, representing a transposition of an imaginative thought into the real world, becoming an essential part of it. At the same time, the real matter is given a process of abstraction, where the visual evidence of real existence and the way it becomes bearer of meaning are intertwined in a system of intentional signs. The reality and its image correspond to the two sides of a coin. In this sense I mean representation as the visual relationship between the human being and the universe. A history where signs of universe are followed by the interpretation of human being, through arts and sciences. Neither the representation nor the universe is static. Collective ‘anywhere’ encoded through cartography do exist; but also private ‘anywhere’. Every ‘anywhere’ becomes naturally reachable by means of cartography, an indication of ability and desire to make a landscape not our outward element, but a founding part of us. A part of imaginative faculty creating a vision able of modifying perception and the essence of the landscape itself. |