COLOR IS THE MUSIC OF THE EYES

Technique:
Photograph printed on acetates contained between two glass plates, inserted in a white wooden base, texts printed on black vinyl (mounted on the base). Dimensions: 1.40 m base x 1.60 m height.

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“Color is the music of the eyes” said Federico García Lorca.
Derek Jarman quotes Lorca with this phrase in his book Modern Nature. I take the book as a reference and begin to take these 30 photographs seen from my balcony on the 6th floor of the Palacio Salvo.

It is the view I have of the Rio de la Plata, from where I observe the entrances and exits of the ships, like a lookout in the City.

 

I perceive a constant and it is that the ships are almost entirely cargo ships, it is at this moment that I begin to photograph the transit of ships. I record them day after day and I transform them into marinas from photography.

 

The work is born with a very clear aesthetic conceptual awareness from its first approach; it is a work that appears to be abstract, due to the impact of the color and the sound of the shapes created by the transparencies of the seascapes when crossed by light, although it is not, because it is figurative.

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In this first contact, it is related to Lorca's phrase, "my intention" is to express the sound of the sea through the colors that are projected on the informative texts, they contain the detail of the cargo that each ship transports: from which port they set sail and in which port they will dock, how long they are and their flag.

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This information is provided to me by an app that shows me, via satellite, maritime traffic in the world's seas, a tool that gives us fascinating data when it comes to revealing the movement for human consumption.