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Translate Landscapes “Dam Nation” Julia Soler
THE IMAGES This two pictures are from the series “dam nation”. It is an on-going project where I try to translate landscapes that I see in my dreams when I’m sleeping into real places. I usually find myself in unknown vast landscapes and I’m usually the only human/animal being around. Water, trees and paths are always very present in my dreams with this certain feeling of mistery, meditation and solitude. Both pictures where taken in Canada. The first one is at Lake Huron. I had never seen such a big lake before. Being born in the Mediterranen sea, this was very impressive, because the lake was so vast, it seemed…
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Blindate by Mariana Zamarbide
Blind Date is an action, in which I propose myself an unnecessary (anduncomfortable) objective to encounter the danger and the unknown.It culminates with an anti-epic feat: to cross the river Besos ofBarcelona (which is slightly contaminated) dressed with a flotation suitmade out of empty water bottles. Previously I established a series of absurd requirements, which I had tocomplete:– the crossing-over had to take place in winter.– I had to dive under water to obtain photographs of the river’s ground. Once I had decided my goals it began a process of mental and physicalpreparationduring which I tried to estimate the dangers I would be exposed to.The imperative of wanting to foresee…