Trànsits (self-portraits)

Trànsits [Tránsitos] emerged on a car trip between Salamanca and the city of Valencia. The driver who was taking us back to the Mediterranean had to make the mandatory stop, and while Rosa María was having breakfast, I stayed inside the vehicle. I was interested in exploring the journey in two ways: on the one hand, the way the landscape affects us, and so my face varies according to what is given to me to see; on the other hand, the way the journey is a metaphor – trite, I know – of life, hence the manual manipulation of the images and why it is, let’s say, an author’s book. The photograph of a gas station at the beginning and another at the end (it also appears on the cover), linking the beginning with the conclusion of any journey, is not dramatic, but hopeful. I understand it as the place where you get fuel to continue the journey. Perhaps for this reason, the photograph that closes the work is torn in different places, to show that beyond what is visible there is a new world. Trànsits features a brief prologue by the writer and film director Ramón Lluis Bande.

Trànsits [Transits] (self-portraits), prologue by Ramón Lluis Bande, Valencia, Llambert Palmart, 2002.