One dayout of the blues I found out one of those hospital X-Rays light-box, those old ones that doctors use to study them, which I now have as an unusual"lamp" at the studio. For several times I looked at it with its light on.
I realised then that when I'm looking or staring at it withits light on, I imagine things there. Since I know myself I hear that thebiggest fear for writers and artists is a blank page, a blank wall, a blankcanvas... on the opposite, a blank space for me is what challenges me the most,what makes me want to create even more. I love staring at blank spaces. Andhere I was staring at this light box for X-Rays... till I realised that I wasimagining landscapes created on it. My own landscapes, created in my own mindprojected into that blank and lighted space.
At that moment I was playing with a messy ball of wire andconscious on how it can be used to connect, and how it's used to conduct theenergy. Energies. Immediately I took a bit of it and started looking at it ashorizon lines, drawing with it "trees" and "mountains". Ipicked up then few more stuff I had close to me. Like chestnuts. And salt. Andlavender flowers. And stones.
As a child with a new toy I was happy and forgot the wholeworld with all its majestic landscapes, to create new ones untouched by humans.I was creating a new concept of landscapes in my mind, or over the R-Rays'light-box, for me to have them as islands in my own urban space. An escape.During the day or night.
An X-Ray's lightbox is used to see bones and organs, theinteriors of people, but here I used to visualise the exteriors expanded inlandscapes of the mind, visualizing islands - or inlands - to where we can runinto.
With this in mind I created day and night vision on them, the negatives likethe X-Ray sheets as night landscapes and the light connected ones as dayislands.
WiredScapes is a series of photographs of landscapes withnatural elements all connected with wire over light. The wire here plays therole of different kinds of horizons, which use to separate sky and sea/land,here becomes part and connects the natural elements like rocks, plants, salt.
On WiredScapes, the light is the main environment, playingas air, water and fire, where salt comes as earth. Metal connects and playswith them all and in several cultures is considered one of the natural elementsamong with fire, water, earth and air.
Transparencies and opacity connected and interfering witheach other, the weights of the elements on a not natural context butco-existing and belonging to the light itself. On WiredScapes, light is light.But is also a wired light. Light weight on cosmic light.
The WiredScapes series came out as a need of silence of themind in a urban landscape where everything tend to be noisy, using the electriclight and not the natural as the author's uses for humans' portraits forexample. Wire connects but is also a conductor of energy. And of energies.Natural ones.
For a free fall dive in your own mind, in a galaxy nearyou."
photographs and text by ©Gonzalo Bénard
WiredScapes are photographs without any digitalmanipulation, printed in limited editions of 5/5, with 1mx66,5cm (39.37"x26.18").
WiredScapes is a collection of 10(x2)different photographs: each one in day and night / earth and cosmic version.
I realised then that when I'm looking or staring at it withits light on, I imagine things there. Since I know myself I hear that thebiggest fear for writers and artists is a blank page, a blank wall, a blankcanvas... on the opposite, a blank space for me is what challenges me the most,what makes me want to create even more. I love staring at blank spaces. Andhere I was staring at this light box for X-Rays... till I realised that I wasimagining landscapes created on it. My own landscapes, created in my own mindprojected into that blank and lighted space.
At that moment I was playing with a messy ball of wire andconscious on how it can be used to connect, and how it's used to conduct theenergy. Energies. Immediately I took a bit of it and started looking at it ashorizon lines, drawing with it "trees" and "mountains". Ipicked up then few more stuff I had close to me. Like chestnuts. And salt. Andlavender flowers. And stones.
As a child with a new toy I was happy and forgot the wholeworld with all its majestic landscapes, to create new ones untouched by humans.I was creating a new concept of landscapes in my mind, or over the R-Rays'light-box, for me to have them as islands in my own urban space. An escape.During the day or night.
An X-Ray's lightbox is used to see bones and organs, theinteriors of people, but here I used to visualise the exteriors expanded inlandscapes of the mind, visualizing islands - or inlands - to where we can runinto.
With this in mind I created day and night vision on them, the negatives likethe X-Ray sheets as night landscapes and the light connected ones as dayislands.
WiredScapes is a series of photographs of landscapes withnatural elements all connected with wire over light. The wire here plays therole of different kinds of horizons, which use to separate sky and sea/land,here becomes part and connects the natural elements like rocks, plants, salt.
On WiredScapes, the light is the main environment, playingas air, water and fire, where salt comes as earth. Metal connects and playswith them all and in several cultures is considered one of the natural elementsamong with fire, water, earth and air.
Transparencies and opacity connected and interfering witheach other, the weights of the elements on a not natural context butco-existing and belonging to the light itself. On WiredScapes, light is light.But is also a wired light. Light weight on cosmic light.
The WiredScapes series came out as a need of silence of themind in a urban landscape where everything tend to be noisy, using the electriclight and not the natural as the author's uses for humans' portraits forexample. Wire connects but is also a conductor of energy. And of energies.Natural ones.
For a free fall dive in your own mind, in a galaxy nearyou."
photographs and text by ©Gonzalo Bénard
WiredScapes are photographs without any digitalmanipulation, printed in limited editions of 5/5, with 1mx66,5cm (39.37"x26.18").
WiredScapes is a collection of 10(x2)different photographs: each one in day and night / earth and cosmic version.
