Erosion;el camino a mi montaña

Erosión; el camino hacia mi montaña (Erosion; The Path to My Mountain) a photographic and performative exploration created during and after my diagnosis with cancer (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma). The series explores the emotional landscape of cancer and grief.

Erosión; el camino hacia mi montaña (Erosion; The Path to My Mountain)

Erosión; el camino hacia mi montaña (Erosion; The Path to My Mountain) began in 2023, shortly after I was diagnosed with cancer (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma). From that moment, my life changed in a radical and profound way. My body began to deteriorate, my home stopped feeling like a refuge, and my then girlfriend relationship came apart. Everything I once considered stable fractured, it was chaos.

The experience of illness brought a constant sense of loss — not only physical, but also emotional, and existential. What do we do with what we lose? How do we move forward when what we once were is no longer there? How do we inhabit a body in transition, a present overwhelmed by uncertainty?

Amid that disintegration, I began to walk toward a mountain. A silent, almost ritualistic walk that, over time — more than a year and a half — became my refuge and my embrace. There, through rituals, offerings, tears, I found a place to be. I became part of that mountain, of that land also in constant erosion.

The images that form this series are both documentation and performance .They include the mountain itself — a living witness to my process — and a hospital robe worn during treatment, now reimagined within the landscape. My movements through the terrain echo the physical and emotional journey of illness, fragility, and rebirth. I often placed objects between the camera and myself — glass, water, fragments of mirrors — to distort the image and create illusions of motion, reflection, and fracture. These gestures translate how life felt during chemotherapy.

The majority of the images were created using medium format (120) film, a deliberate choice to slow down. The tactile nature of film — its grain, its waiting, its imperfections — mirrors the vulnerability of the body and the passage of time. The process became a dialogue between the land and memory, a representation of the body, between the mountain’s erosion and my own.

Erosión; el camino hacia mi montaña (Erosion; The Path to My Mountain) is an exploration of loss, transformation, and reconstruction. Through performance, image, and landscape, it reflects on how we inhabit pain, what we do with what breaks, and how, even through erosion, something quietly takes form.