Sea Level • 2005

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Landscape-Phenomenon, a project supported by the Bolsa Vitae de Artes, in 2003, investigates the sense of temporal and spatial duration of a landscape. They are two sets of photographic images, taken according to specific procedures, which, through crossings, displacements and sequences of views, present two attitudes towards the landscape. Here extracts the chronological time and leaves the moment pulsating through all the images, and Sea Level extracts the space and establishes the horizon like the common place of all the infinity. Both instant and infinite are immeasurable magnitudes that give light to our perception and leave reason bewildered.

Sea Level is the photographic register of the sea horizon continuous line taken from eleven points along the Brazilian coast. The points were chosen so that the visual field extremities of each point were intercepted by the neighbors’ visual field before the 12 nautical miles, therefore within the Brazilian maritime territory. With the set of images, the idea is that one can follow the horizon line as the Brazil ‘lateral infinity’, our border between the visible and the invisible.