Nostalgia for the Glade

This essay produced from personal photographs, appropriations from family albums, and old books. In the process of these manual collages, I summoned images of distinct temporalities and origins to create a poetic-reflective instance.

The "Nostalgia for the Glade" is an essay produced from personal photographs, appropriations from family albums, and old books. In the process of these manual collages, I summoned images of distinct temporalities and origins to create a poetic-reflective instance, emulating in language the labyrinths erected between the conscious and the unconscious, seeking to bring to light issues related to ancestry and the enigmas of life.

Starting from a personal experience, I traced reflections on the process of creating images as an opening to the unknown: the unconscious, that is, the unknown within ourselves, what we do not control and always escapes us, eluding time itself and stretching into our behaviors and feelings.

In this essay, I was driven by an imperative desire to create images, generating collages in which I combined personal photographs with portraits of my mother or photographs taken by her. In one of the portraits, I made the gesture of covering her face with the words: "the great mystery."

On July 2, 2021, shortly after the end of the essay, an image of another order was established: the death of my mother. She now inhabits the "Great Mystery," and for as long as it's meant to be, the traces of this question remain: would images be able to elaborate on something that will happen to us?