Paradise Found’21

Artist Residency Paradise Found’21 | Imagerie – Casa das Imagens

Paradise Found” is a project that aims to reflect on the sustainability of contemporary artistic practices, especially photography, through the plastic exploration of urban green spaces. With this project, we intend to create a visual work that reflects on these aspects while exploring forms of photographic creation focused on sustainability and based on numerous experimental and alternative photographic printing and capture processes, some of which use the photosensitive properties of own plants, also exploring issues such as the manipulation of matter and the permanence of the image. – Imagerie 2021

“Paradise Found” é um projeto que pretende refletir sobre a sustentabilidade das práticas artísticas contemporâneas, especialmente da fotografia, através da exploração plástica dos espaços verdes urbanos. Com este projeto pretende-se criar uma obra visual que reflita sobre estes aspetos ao mesmo tempo que se exploram formas de criação fotográfica focadas na sustentabilidade e baseadas em inúmeros processos de impressão e captação fotográficos experimentais e alternativos, alguns dos quais recorrem às propriedades fotossensíveis das próprias plantas, explorando-se também questões como a manipulação da matéria e a permanência da imagem. – Imagerie

Exhibition at 5D Creative Hub (Marvila – Portugal)
27 Nov – 11 Dec 2021

Eucalyptus Anthotype
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Galho Notebook with photographic experiments and writings about the project
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Chlorella Anthotype on handmade paper
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Plum Anthotype
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Frames and boxes made from recycled wood by project Depois, (creation of decorative and artistic pieces from waste).
Eucalyptus leaves, flowers and fruits caught in my chosen urban green space: Jardim do Campo Grande (Lisboa, Portugal)

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Cyanotype developed with water, sodium carbonate and coffee,
on bamboo paper, 26×36.4 cm
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Harvested flower, lost fruit.
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From good seed, good fruit.
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Trees and lovers, as long as they have roots, will have fruits and flowers

Portuguese Sayings printed by the sun through a Chlorella (algae) Anthotype.
The paper is handmade, recycled and mixed with basil and/or chives seeds.
The water discarded in the process of making paper was later used to water my plants.

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Cyanotypes of natural organic matter (branches, leaves and roots)