River Trees Piles

Nature takes its course almost carelessly.

Nature resumes its course almost carelessly.

A natural landscape with a river and its riverbed, along with what has happened around it since the weather had affected it, which man then attempted to order/arrange.

The photographer's gaze, mediated by the optical-mechanical device, appears rather cold, inexpressive, in some ways topographical, even when he inserts himself into the image, as a static and impassive figure or as his own shadow, imprinted in the image while he acts on the photographs. To construct the sequence, he uses the doubling of the frame in photographs placed side by side, showing a slight but significant lateral shift of the frame. This leads to a montage where the image containing the photographer's figure is reproduced twice: once "normally" and once flipped 180°, so that the individual portrayed looks once from right to left and once from left to right.

The title of the work, "River woods Piles," reaffirms the photographer's detached approach, both physically and expressively. He relies, in some ways, on the optical-mechanical device, even as his authorial and cultural intervention emerges in his choice of black-and-white plates, in the construction of diptych visions, in the reversal of the image

of his own figure inserted into the landscape, and, finally, in the construction of the sequence that begins with an image of the river and returns to it at the end, almost as if to say that despite man, nature reclaims its course almost carelessly.