Seascapes variation 06

“Seascapes” is a reference to the marine art genre, which main motifs are the sea, naval battles, the ships, the visage of lakes and rivers. The photographic series was constructed through the ancient cyanotype process, using garbage that was collected from old rivers in Mexico City, which nowadays run through drainage systems and that correspond to the main avenues of the city as its main element. This chemical process allows for any element placed above the paper to transfer its mark through the exposure of the emulsion to sunlight. The image that is created is a blue monochrome, which figuration allows for an ambiguous relationship of similarity with the object of reference and the marine landscape. Between figurative and abstract, between the index and the icon, between photography and painting, “Seascapes” is a testimony to the urban landscape, a document that is possible only as a fiction, a photograph without a camera that supports itself on the direct contact of the chemical process, its status as index, to play with the iconicity pertinent to the medium.