Fragments
The work explores the symbolic role of plants as agents of absorption, representing nature's capacity to filter and absorb toxins from the environment. By using plants as both subjects and developers in the photographic process, the work emphasises the idea that plants not only absorb light but also the chemicals, pollutants, and minerals present in their surroundings. This approach highlights the duality of plants as symbols of both resilience and vulnerability in the face of environmental contamination.
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The work explores the symbolic role of plants as agents of absorption, representing nature's capacity to filter and absorb toxins from the environment. By using plants as both subjects and developers in the photographic process, the work emphasises the idea that plants not only absorb light but also the chemicals, pollutants, and minerals present in their surroundings. This approach highlights the duality of plants as symbols of both resilience and vulnerability in the face of environmental contamination.
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La natura ha una sua perfezione soprendente e questo è il risultato di una somma di limiti. La natura è perfetta perché non è infinita. Nature has its own surprising perfection and this is the result of a sum of limits. Nature is perfect because it is not infinite.
(Alessandro Baricco, Oceano Mare: I, V; 1998, p. 34)
The quote "Nature is perfect because it is not infinite," by Baricco, finds a profound counterpoint in the philosophical statement that "nature is not infinite" in a material sense, yet is often conceptually linked to the infinite—as in Spinoza's equation of "Deus sive Natura" (God or Nature). While Baricco suggests that perfection arises from limits—from nature’s finitude, vulnerability, and completeness—the Spinozian view extends nature into the realm of the boundless, where it becomes synonymous with divinity and infinitude. Together, these perspectives reveal a dual nature of the natural world: materially finite and fragile, yet conceptually expansive and eternal—a tension that enriches both ecological awareness and metaphysical reflection.
Analog photographic & collage series.
Media used: analog printing, digital printing, photographic paper
Presented at Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam 2023
(Alessandro Baricco, Oceano Mare: I, V; 1998, p. 34)
The quote "Nature is perfect because it is not infinite," by Baricco, finds a profound counterpoint in the philosophical statement that "nature is not infinite" in a material sense, yet is often conceptually linked to the infinite—as in Spinoza's equation of "Deus sive Natura" (God or Nature). While Baricco suggests that perfection arises from limits—from nature’s finitude, vulnerability, and completeness—the Spinozian view extends nature into the realm of the boundless, where it becomes synonymous with divinity and infinitude. Together, these perspectives reveal a dual nature of the natural world: materially finite and fragile, yet conceptually expansive and eternal—a tension that enriches both ecological awareness and metaphysical reflection.
Analog photographic & collage series.
Media used: analog printing, digital printing, photographic paper
Presented at Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam 2023
