2023-2024
Before the vast territory of the Pacific Ocean, which some call "the End of the World," stretches a land that has grown within me for nine months.
From the volcanic lands of the North to the primeval rainforests of the West Coast, from the icy peaks of the South to the shores of pristine lakes and blue lagoons, rest the daughters of pure springs. Passing through subterranean starry caves and returning to the light in the mystical waters of the East.
Her indigenous name is Aotearoa.
These photographs reveal dreamlike visions, where nature holds hidden messages that evoke distant dreams. Each landscape becomes a living entity, a guardian of stories and ancestral wisdom, fostering a deep and mysterious connection with humanity.
To allow a relationship with the mystery is to surrender knowing. It is to let go of the impulse to name and define, and to begin feeling, intuiting, listening. In this surrender, the image becomes a threshold — not a representation, but a space of transformation.
Places, like people, change when they are listened to.
In a time when reality feels fractured and disoriented, perhaps the most radical gesture is to listen.
(The work was developed in dialogue with local cultural advisors, in respect of the tangata whenua and the principles of kaitiakitanga.)
