"in one case, the out of field
designates that which exists elsewhere, to one
side or around; in
the other case,
the out of field testifies to a more
disturbing presence, one which cannot even be said
to exist, but rather to
insist or subsist, a more radical
elsewhere, outside homogeneous space and time
-Gilles
Deleuze (Cinema I: The Movement-Image 1983)
nothing stays
permanent
-Hiroshi Sugimoto (interview with
Giampaolo Penco: 2007)
smoke
signals: portals y paisajes is
a project that focuses on the concept of the
lens as a portal, frame, window,
an entry point that one can further look
through to unlock narratives beyond the limits
of a two dimensional plane:
informed, constructed and activated by
our own personal experiences
experiences we
bring to this two dimensional frame.
The mobility/ immobility of the
two-dimensional lens, frame, portal operates as
static objects in one hand while penetrating
through the fabric of our own
consciousness with implied narratives on the
other hand. We
as spectators enter these portals,
seeking paisaje or
landscape all the time except that we more often
run into them through the comfort and
familiarity of our
own lens, our own doorway thus further
negating any possibility of new discovery or
perspectives. These familial experiences
can be altered by permitting ourselves to
slow down the way we interpret the landscape
slowing down our
visual sensors
in order to
comprehend and disseminate the parallels between
familiar and distant moments/memory in many
cases forgotten
or
displaced
juxtaposing known images, sounds and
situations with possible foreign ones that
slowly create a paradox between
the unfamiliar and
familiar
threading, constructing and overlapping
multiple narratives fused together to propose
alternative
perspectives.
Gaining these perspectives can allow for a
reconsideration of the known physical and
psychological terrain.
Social change
only happens when we change our perspective.
We
should distinguish the properties of
particulars, and gather by induction what
pertains to the eye when visions take place
and what is found in the manner of
sensations.
-Ibn Al-Haytham
(The Book of Optics: 11th century)
