Crossing
I started the journey when a child, with imagination. Inspired by
the tales of travelers of other times, I explored distant
lands and peoples, and since then I have not paused in my travels
or my imagination. At first I looked for a destination, but then
I realized that there are moments in a journey when chance becomes
destiny.
I went into the jungle because I wanted to live life at its deepest.
Attracted by the mystery of the wilds, I wanted to learn how to
know through my senses.
From the waterfalls
in the Apaporis river I learned the flow of time and its silences.
From the trees, the virtue of stillness. From the voices of the
woods I heard ancient music: the pulse of life and the planet.
Dwelling among stones and tree barks, fragrances and dampness,
I perceived the numberless expressions of the Spirit of the Earth.
The journey, as a vital experience, is a ritual act. My travels
have taken me to deserts and mountains, always open to the presences
which the magic of the place reveals, like a murmur. Often, water
has traced my path; the beds of streams, rivers in the jungles
and endless shorelines, that fertile embrace of Sea and Earth.
In search of
light I have followed the rhythms of day and night, the rise and
fall of the seasons and of life, and I have visited, as a pilgrim,
temples and places of power, listening to the voices and songs
of other peoples telling the story of their origins.
Travel, as environmental art, is a continuous appropriation of
territories by the senses.
My photographs
are an imaginaire of meetings and visions, loose leaves in a log.
They are a testimony of the path I have trodden, of places where
my gaze has rested, of contemplation. Their substance is time
and light.
We are Earth
and therefore children of time. At every instant, we are the result
of the history of the processes which shape places and beings:
progressions of erosion and sedimentation, growth and transformation.
Our destiny
as individuals and as a species lies in the recognition of our
indissoluble identity with She who engenders and devours
