Dry Garden

The series “Jardim Seco” (Dry Garden), photographed in winter in Hokkaido, Japan, transposes snow landscapes onto the surface of river stones, materializing an image that would exist only on the retina. The stone, already shaped by centuries of water and time, receives these ephemeral landscapes, adding a new layer to its own millenary geological history. The concept draws from the observation of karesansui, the dry Zen garden that suggests landscape through stone and sand alone, proposing a bridge between contemporary photography and the contemplative Japanese tradition. Each piece is a tactile fragment of a landscape that no longer exists: something between photography, landscape, and relic.