The Path to Shizen

The Path of Shizen is an immersive practice of observation and experimentation developed in the natural surroundings of the Argentine Pampas, where the artist lives. It grows from an ongoing inquiry into the relationship between humans and nature through the ideas of coexistence and synchronicity. It reflects on the fragility and transformation of these landscapes, and on how we relate to and inhabit the natural world.

The works are fragmented landscapes composed of individual pieces produced separately and later reassembled. Fragility manifests itself through this act of fragmentation and recomposition, evoking vulnerability and impermanence.

This exploration unfolds through experimental cyanotypes on Japanese paper created in collaboration with nature and time. Images are exposed to sunlight and washed with water from the site or rainwater. Light, temperature, humidity, wind, seasonal changes, and time of day actively influence the formation of each piece, leaving visible traces of the environmental conditions and temporal variations that shaped it.

Through an engagement with slow time, the landscape is experienced across multiple dimensions, not only through visual representation, but through a collaborative relationship with the natural world. The creative act becomes a process of co-creation in which nature and time participate as active agents. The work opens to chance, unpredictability, and error, allowing the image to emerge through the interaction between intention and circumstance.

Within this practice, nature, light, and time are transmuted into the materiality of the work. Each piece becomes a record of a unique encounter between matter, time, and nature.