The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Revisited)

The tides, waves and uncertainties were the compasses of a journey searching for the endless landscapes and thoughts that take shape as the sea seems to foolishly try to find its place.

In 1940, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts made an expedition looking for unknown animals that lived in the tide pools by the coast of the Sea of Cortez. Equipped with maps, tide tables, and all sorts of scientific devices, they chased the sea when it retreated, and collected living remnants of its presence before it changed its mind, and again, and decided to advance.

The tides, waves and uncertainties were the compasses of a journey that is now revisited, from dry land, from far away, through the sky. If they were looking for small lifeforms that remained when the sea was gone, I search for the endless landscapes and thoughts that take shape as the sea seems to foolishly try to find its place.

In this project I combine small texts, poems, photographs and images from Google Earth, vintage books and maps. Through the multiplicity of media, I try to represent the plurality of the sea: the diversity of tones, winds, waves and life that it contains, but that can only be accessed from the outside.