Maria Tinaut + Nestor Garcia Diaz

This series is based on pieces from a site-specific project developed with the purpose of exploring and rethinking the concepts of temporality and image construction, generating a pictorial language based on the photographic process of cyanotypes.

The initial premise of this project was to consider how the representation of images can itself be a material of production. To this end, I built a tool that I dragged across the floor of my studio and its surroundings. Each itinerary I followed determined a type of recorded vocabulary. This allowed me to generate something from nothing (subtle scratches, dirt, leaves, etc.) to explore ideas of resistance, the lightness of contact, and the measurement of the body and its performativity as it wanders. To work with tone and color saturation without using paint, I played with different time exposures, bleach washes, and natural dyes. In the particular case of this series, I incorporated compositional and design elements from traditional Spanish dishcloths.