Chapter 1
The Photography Collection
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Fear. That's what I felt most when thinking about getting on the ship.
The ocean is the earth's largest organism, just like the human skin is ours, and we have to surrender to it completely. My relationship to water is complex, maybe because I was severely burnt as a one-year-old. But on the other side of fear, we find the new. At this frontier of the unknown, art and science intersect.
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No 01
Patagonia has the third largest ice reserves in the world.
This ecosystem is being disrupted:
Ocean acidification, global warming, retreating glaciers.
I produced Behold The Ocean in Chile in December 2020, during the global pandemic when governmental measurements severely affected environmental research, resulting in data gaps, the significance of which is yet to be determined. The project documents a scientific expedition to the Southernmost of Patagonia in globally turbulent times and my personal experience during that period.
Now, I am using the work to map our rapidly changing nature to the blockchain as an act of future-proof preservation. With the proceeds, friend and marine biologist Max Vergara and I put together and fund a scientific expedition to Cape Horn in 2022. When we return, we’ll publish the environmental data on-chain.
macrocystis pyrifera [Patagonia]
No 06
This Is Not A Portrait
No 27
nobody
No 56
Sampling Water
No 41
oceanographic sensors
No 21
mountains, mountains – emerald
No 09
mountains, mountains – purple
No 13
Maximiliano Vergara Jara
No 28
crowded buoy
No 02
Here, now
No 31
blue acid
No 03
Marco Pinto
No 30
El Tiempo
No 29
Airport Punta Arenas
No 45
green cluster
No 11
assessments
No 12
depth is measured
No 07
It Is A Back And Forth
No 14
History
No 18
another day at sea
No 16
grey cluster
No 15
mixotroph
No 04
The Orb Last Night
No 36
The Orb
No 17
Wind
No 44
Empty Street in Punta Arenas
No 43
Permiso, Punta Arenas #1
No 24
Permiso, Punta Arenas #2
No 25
king penguin
No 05
king penguin by himself
No 23
point in time
No 22
sensor – first frame
No 37
sensor – connecting
No 38
core
No 20
water stone air
No 08
groundwork
No 26
San Isidro Lighthouse – Cabo Froward
No 57
El Capitán
No 32
Wrong Way
No 47
Closed
No 46
Last Night #01
No 33
Last Night #03
No 35
Last Night #02
No 34
Last Night #04
No 58
red tide
No 10
Asterionellopsis glacialis
No 51
phytoplankton
No 50
first encounters
No 48
More Mountains and Grain
No 42
Victor y Oscar
No 55
as above so below
No 52
Covid and Torres del Paine
No 54
Estrecho de Magallanes
No 53