Sometimes

we can enter the flow of things naturally, without resistance, and when this happens our rational side merges with our unconscious, making us feel overwhelmed.

This state of mind defines us as new creatures.

The core of Take Shelter lies in contemplation of energy, which is abstracted from its manifestation and the situations in which it unfolds. This manifestation has an ephemeral nature, but its contours can be captured in an image through photography.  Nonetheless, my impression is that in this project, forms can lose their initial meanings until they finds new shapes and meanings.

They transcend themself and rearrange in a new equilibrium.

These photographs were taken at a wide variety of times and situations, but by bringing them together new stories are created, with no specific plot. By contemplating our surroundings and observing with a different kind of vision, free from preconceptions and cultural logic, a world with completely new meanings opens up before our eyes: it is not about external time or space, but the inner ones.

Take Shelter is a place of contradictions and a place to breathe.

It is a symbolic place of love, a safe and ecstatic space.

With this project, I can explore my surroundings and unite the pieces that compose my visions, living my inner time without pressure. Each of these shots contains a question mark that I still can’t decipher. This is precisely the reason I find these images interesting: that there’s something inside them that I can’t understand.

In an age that demands us to move faster and faster, where calm is seen as a luxury or perceived as boredom, these shots speak, instead, of slowing down; of listening; of perceiving energies that we are unlearning to welcome.