Pacifica
Long before I set foot there, I already carried with me a certain idea of California, shaped, like that of so many others, by decades of film, photography, literature, and popular culture. I approached this territory with a gaze already filled with images that were not my own. Through this series, I became interested in what happens when we encounter a territory we believe we already know, and in that moment when the image we carry of it meets the experience of the place itself. These two realities overlap without ever quite coinciding. Through colour, light, and the vastness of the landscape, familiar places became subtly strange, suspended between reality and fiction. The territory became a space of projection, where memory, imagination, and experience could coexist. Little by little, my gaze shifted beyond the image of California that I had carried with me, towards more discreet things: emptiness, traces, ordinary spaces, and those moments when the landscape no longer corresponded to the narrative I had carried with me.
