Impermanence

2016–2017

A semicircular metal drain grate half swallowed by a pale concrete floor, its perforated pattern still legible under a scatter of fine gravel.

A dark stone surface seen close up, densely encrusted with pale grey lichen and a few patches of yellow-green.

A heavy patterned curtain in reddish brown, its vertical folds catching the light at the top and dissolving into black at the bottom.

Everything that exists is impermanent and bears witness to the continuous transformation of the world. Impermanence is the nature of things, and images have the power to bring the viewer back into something that no longer exists, setting off a physical and mental sensation bound to the essence of things and to their surface. A precise portion of experience fixed by an analytical gaze, a moment chosen and almost catalogued according to the emotional temperature that lives in each image. In perceiving the essence of the thing itself, I try to enter photographically into its concrete dimension, in order to feel and to hold still what does not remain.