The essay is a very particular representation of a place called Glendalough (Gleann Dá Loch; which means: “glen of two lakes”), a tiny and touristic village located in co. Wicklow, Ireland. Scenes of the movies “Brave Heart” and “P.S. I Love You” were shot around those lands. The views are amazing and the perfume of coconut with vanilla, which comes from yellow flowers that infest the trails surrounded by mountains, turn the experience directly connected to the memory. The stay was an accident but at the same time a gift from destiny. Was months sharing thoughts and speaking with trees, lakes and ruins. Each new discovery a new secret was kept away from any other living being who were no sheep or deer. The nature arouses a simple and direct creativity that can be completely improved into a doubtful and abstract work.
Contemplating the sunset front a lake, which had a perfect reflex, a rock was thrown to see how distant it would flies until dives in the water. By touching that natural mirror, the reflex was no reflex anymore, transforming itself in a traffic of waves. The idea for the project happened instantly.
Using a tripod was possible to create images which, with a perfect reflex and upside down, become strange to our brain, but, still using the same frame and the same reflex, the water, when suffering an external influence as a rock or wind, makes the same photography turn even more interesting and lovely.
The essay is compound of huge lakes and puddles created by the heavy rains. Co. Wicklow is the garden of Ireland because is the area which contains most green and most variety of landscapes born by the storms. These are the truths of water, that transforms everything it touches and adapt itself when any thing reaches it way. Water does not discouraged nor run away, does not betrays nor lies, but when we can finally see through your truly face, it changes the perfect form with a simple whisper of the wind.
