In this body of work entitled “Solidified Matter” I am intensively collecting close-ups of frozen mixed materials such as water, soil, food colorants, eggs, black ink, soda, grass, olive oil, chocolate, rope, sugar, and coffee. Once the water (or any other liquid) is totally solid, it contains in its interior the inserted substances creating a planetary illusion view of the universe. Each piece is unique and needs to be photographed quickly before it melts. With this series, I underline the concept of the elegance, temporality, and fragility of the universe, our cosmic home.
The spheres are photographed as dots against a black background, as a representation of the dark vastness that surrounds us; the same dots that at the same time are connected by that darkness. Light cannot survive without dark. The black negative space signifies the questions that I ask to the viewer and myself. It is the gap that we need to be filled with responses that we can only answer by looking at the whole picture, and yet sometimes, do not really understand. Why are they floating in the darkness? What is sustaining them? Why are they there?
The images convey a sense of surreal space, silence, and mystery. This body of work invites the viewer to think and observe an image of an image. In other words, the deconstruction and reconstruction of reality that turns into an abstract scientific and perceptual discovery of the unknown.