A Journey to Anywhere.
After years of experimentation I am still charmed by the intriguing and sometimes surreal quality of these images.
Their dreamlike and haunting quality invoke the fragility of memory and the ever-changing fabric of imagination. And each image, as each moment of life, is unique and can never be repeated.
The creative process begins when I choose to stop a certain moment in time with my camera.
I then process my prints using peel-apart Polaroid film and create a transfer on heavy watercolor paper or hand crafted paper from Mexican artisans, Papel Amate.
The Polaroid film is exposed and separated from its backing before the migration of the dyes is completed. The image continues to develop on the new medium, while using pressure and heat.
Then the image may be manipulated, scratched or painted with watercolor or inks.
The same original image can be used for many prints, but due to the characteristics of the transfer process and the physical unpredictable variables, each transfer is a unique one-of-a-kind image.
After living a few years in Los Angeles and then Miami, I now live in San Francisco and maybe Atlanta... I was born in France and raised in Mexico City. I am a writer and a photographer and have a degree in Archeology and Social Anthropology.
My work has been exhibited in fine Galleries in Mexico City, Los Angeles, Miami and Houston.