I am inspired by classical art and Japanese Wabi Sabi philosophy, who is based on the beauty of imperfection and the harmony of the encounter with the simplicity of natural. More specifically, in his ancestral art Kintsugi ceramist. This technique applies gold dust in the cracks of ceramics, giving them new life as same as valuing their story.
I apply this art to intervene the body and emotional wounds.

This project invites you to reflect on the canons of beauty imposed, especially on women, and in that distorted relationship of our body with the illusory ideal of perfection and the idea of strength vs. fragility.

We create an essential and primary bond with nature in general and, especially, with the body itself. This, like the landscape and the space, keep memory. Hence the importance of healing this link.
I portray women who find strength in their vulnerability and, in their wounds, the overcoming that they mean. By enhancing their scars with gold, the body arises as a landscape that mutates delicate, strong, alive.

I use photography as a means of exploration of this process, linking body and landscape, through a metaphorical parallelism between their individual marks and the material emotionality of certain elements of nature, valuing the most human of our nature: the fragility.
And to understand how they heal their wounds, recognizing in one’s skin, in memory like in the landscape, that personal strength.

Let us honor those beautiful scars, traces of memory, that make us more strong, beautiful, alive.

I chose a kind of japanese paper for the photographs because of the particularly transparency and fragility, while at the same time because of the resistance over time, all of them pillars of this work, as they allude to the skin and the resilience capacity of these strong women.