23.5°

Shot over a year in Connecticut, the 23.5º series is a progressive mapping of nature’s transformations, one that goes beyond the landscape to reach something essential: the seasons’ being. Through abstraction, the scenery is broken down; trees and skies are reduced to a palette of complex hues many of which would be barely noticeable if presented as part of a figurative image. The process is hence one of revelation. Like a photograph developing, it allows the unseen to emerge.

23.5º is the axis on which the earth circumnavigates the sun. As months pass, the planet’s surface grows closer to or further from its warmth – a phenomenon that dictates the seasons and thus governs nature’s very mechanism. Each image not only retains but also enhances the particular atmosphere of the season it was shot in. Spring and summer explode in dizzying arrays of pulsating colours, whereas winter and fall are draped in quieter tones like in a visual hibernation. The unchanging format, ridding the pictures from anything distracting and superfluous, exacerbates these differences.

Recording day after day the place’s cyclical metamorphoses, the images function like a diary. They crystallise the my desire to make sense of my surroundings, to explore what it means to be somewhere, part of a specific environment. 23.5º, is a celebration of the vibrancy and richness of the land where he has chosen to settle.