De Natura Sublime is a personal photographic project that aims to show the experience and relationship of fascination-restlessness with the mountains, from a utopian point of view that magnifies them. The photographic exhibition aims, from specific real places, to transmit the sublime that is experienced in situ .
The fact of venturing alone into these natural spaces provokes conflicting emotions: vulnerability and insignificance in the face of its greatness, self-empowerment when contemplating the landscape from above.
When traveling through the mountainous environment, the landscape seems to expand and envelop you, time slows down, the senses are enhanced and everything together makes you perceive and fully enjoy “the here and now.” The rest is diluted.
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“If the field, the mountains or the sea can exist without man, the landscape cannot exist without him, without his gaze, without mental representation, without the desire for representation that will give rise to paintings or images. The landscape is a perceptual entity, and therefore cultural. For the landscape to emerge, a presence in the place, a being in the place, is necessary.”
Saule-Sorbé, H. (2006) Ante la prueba del motivo artístico: Algunas reflexiones sobre la observación en el arte del paisaje.
“The mountaineer is the cartographer of the peaks who maps the silence.”
Marco Miranda, E. (2015). La fotografía de paisaje en el Pirineo Central a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Una revisión contemporánea desde la práctica artística del caminar por el territorio de alta montaña.
“(…) the individual dilutes himself to achieve a feeling of communion and serenity (…) when one manages to distance oneself and be aware of oneself in the context, the feeling of the sublime occurs. At this moment, the fragility of the human being is confirmed, the fear experienced in the face of immensity and the fear of assuming the impossibility of dialogue and reasoning with an environment that will impose its truth is understood. However, we must continue (…)”.
Marco Miranda, E. (2015). La fotografía de paisaje en el Pirineo Central a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Una revisión contemporánea desde la práctica artística del caminar por el territorio de alta montaña.
"(...) opposite to the beautiful, it arouses emotions of danger, shakes reasoning and releases the irrational side that corresponds to the imagination."
Marco Miranda, E. (2015). La fotografía de paisaje en el Pirineo Central a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Una revisión contemporánea desde la práctica artística del caminar por el territorio de alta montaña.