Sitges melanconia

This series of photographic images explores places found after escaping the city. The urban environment is frantic and overloaded with stimuli, leading to a progressive loss of identity. There is no longer a community of simple and profound meaning; instead, we are confronted with the void between fragmented information that continuously confuses us. Paraphrasing Dorfles, I seek an imaginative pause to rediscover the aesthetic enjoyment of the world. In this era of hypertrophy, my solution is to escape toward simpler forms that cleanse the eye and consciousness from overflow. The sea, with its landscape unchanged over millennia, offers a catharsis as it reconnects us with forces that exist despite our indifference and fear.

The sea's boundaries are safe shores where one can rediscover a slow dance with the world.

Travel is a means to rediscover human life, as everything is new and does not need to be remembered or imagined: it is present in all its individuality. This absence disorients us with its self-sufficiency, just as, silenced by silence, we become silent. Photography serves as a way to abstract from the world, to participate in it more intimately, and to seek balance between the external and the internal. I climb on thin stilts to be present in the moment.

The images were inspired by the story "Cities and Eyes. 3. Baucis" from Italo Calvino's book "Invisible Cities".

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