Agua
This project was inspired by the bodies of water in the Lagoon of Guatavita, Cundinamarca, Bogota Colombia. The pattern used as transfer is a recycled anaolgue film with the interesting cell like pattern. Playing with its negativity, and the exposure on cyanotype, each A5 sized transfer was cut out into a unique shape and sowed to another, creating a particle like pattern.
Water is vital to our life cycle and the most abundant component of our Earth's surface.
Ironically, the ignorance of industrialized humans neglects its vitality. Likewise, misuse of water and preserving its purity has resulted in economic and political tensions against indigenous territories. Those who do know how to care for and coexist with water, are Indigenous populations and simultaneaously are the ones most deprived of this vital component.
Walking along the coast of Isla Negra in Valparaíso, Chile, in front of Pablo Neruda's house, Graquandra felt the salty air vibrate, the waves crashed into the rocks and splashed microscopic salty water particles into their air. Never had seawater impacted Graquandra like that. It could have been something about the intensity of singing particles that make up the dimensions of water.
Nature spoke. The cyanotype and its blue tint show globules where Graquandra attempts to reinterpret that memory of Isla Negra.