Traces originates from the observation of the marks that nature creates spontaneously on the surface of the world. Ripples on water, ice crystals, wind-shaped vegetation, footprints in the snow, and textures carved by erosion become a form of silent writing, without a codified language, yet strangely familiar.

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By isolating details and fragments of landscape, the photographs shed any geographical or dimensional reference. What remains is a sequence of lines, rhythms, and patterns that constantly oscillate between representation and abstraction. The viewer instinctively recognizes what is depicted in the photograph, yet is simultaneously invited to read it as a graphic sign, a map, a calligraphy or a drawing, awakening our natural search for order, meaning, and geometry.

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The project stems from a desire to observe nature as a creative process rather than as a place. The forms are neither constructed nor manipulated, they emerge spontaneously through the action of water, wind, ice, and time. Each image records a unique and unrepeatable moment in which the landscape generates a singular configuration before transforming once again.

 

In this series, photography becomes a tool of observation and translation. Through the photographic act, ordinary elements are removed from their descriptive function and reveal a more essential dimension, where the boundary between reality and abstraction dissolves, and nature reveals itself as a continuous gesture of creation.