NEW MEXICAN TRAVELS.
A photographic research into the vast expansive landscape
of New Mexico, USA, made possible during residence stay
at Santa Fe Art Institute in March/April 2013.
While
... weiterlesensite-specific attempts were lingering in the back of my mind, recalling Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson and Bruce Nauman, I experienced a slow, but vast expansive landscape, full of contradictions and full of colonial and cultural clashes, that emptied my mind and my eyes from pre-conceptions, making me drive out into the unknown, while on stay. What I experienced was a mix of reservations, clinging to casino build resorts for income, the hispanic community living side by side of the old spanish settlers and their descendants, all reclaiming own territories and land, while some towns of the 60 ́s communities are driven to tourism and real estate sales. New Mexico is the state of the first atomic bomb explosion and of dry high altitude with mountains, valleys and resorts. Being on my own, I enjoyed a photographic research, that can be called an artists journey, discovering a vast expansive landscape.
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