o horizonte em linha, separa-me aberto em dois

The horizon divides everything into two parts: what precedes it and what continues beyond it. Everything we see — the object — lies on the near side of the horizon. Everything we think — the idea — lies on the far side.

The existence of a line, unchanging yet intangible, common to every space but dependent on the presence of an observer in order to exist, leads to the conclusion that, beyond dividing the visible from the hidden, it belongs, itself, to a dimension somewhere between the physical and the conceptual. Does the horizon exist more in the landscape or in thought?

To separate the upper from the lower is to separate the inner from the outer, to separate the sky from the rocks, the foam from the summit, the roots from the mist. It is also to extend all of this to infinity. To separate the upper from the lower is also to continue the inner into the outer.

In this series of photographs, the horizon line is conceived as a guiding thread, formal and conceptual, in the exploration of visible and hidden space — a work of deconstructing the idea of the horizon, so that in fact no real horizon, if it exists at all, is used to compose any of the images.