Miguel Torga Street, Ponte de Sor, Alentejo, Portugal, from 2012/01/31 to 2012/03/05, between 12h30m and 14h00m, clear sky, small digital camera always at head height, normal lens.

 

To establish simple defining procedures of a photographic action inside an aprioristic operative field and specific aesthetic goals that could, paradoxically, avoid pre visualization of the oeuvre's final structure: this was the defining methodology for this project whose initial aim was to photographically reflect about document and memory. One of the most fascinating themes inside photographic field is, in my understanding, the representation of continuity and fragmentation inherent to individual perception and visual memory. In this project I tried to approach this premise getting work of art experience closer to quotidian experience of seeing. This task obliged to a direct way of looking at objects, beings and spaces, so that in the end the work of art could be a document of time marks evidence and men's actions over the places where we live in. Light by early afternoon, that photographers so much try to avoid, was decisive for the purpose, because it was fundamental this strong feeling of physical presence of objects before our eyes.