Vesica Piscis 

2017

Vesica Piscis explores the false dichotomy and the detachment of mankind from nature.

Humans have perpetually sought separation and supremacy over nature. Civilizations have ravaged and plundered nature, regarding it as a utility and a resource. This was accentuated during the age of The Enlightenment, when some philosophers pushed for a radical separation between the material world and the cognitive or spiritual realm, and the onset of industrialization for the retreating of nature in favor of human expansion.

Paradoxically, the very conquest of nature, in combination with the alienation from it, promoted the idea of its sacredness. Humanity started referring to nature in their quest to define the ideal; the natural represented virtue in that sense. Today, one of the ways we have come to define it is through terms such as “pristine” and “undisturbed by humans”.

The photographs are an exploration of our estrangement from nature, our ambiguous definition of it, and our contradictory relationship with it through the use of symbolism, in equivocal grounds where the natural and the social construct overlap.