The title of the series announces dark and dreamlike visions.
In De Profundis one of the most classic dualisms is staged: the manifest identity and the nature of the subconscious, of the undisclosed, depicted with human semblance the first, and zoomorphic the second.
From the depths of the abysses of the unconscious, emerges a creature with a feminine aspect and a fish head.
Fish is a symbol of fertility, the image of life‐giving power, rebirth, and water, which is its element, is a symbol of life, but also of degradation and destruction.
The fish is a chthonic character, the image of those who live in the underground world and, in this habitat, made of vitality and energy destruction, is the protagonist.
The location is not naturalistic but a furnished house, because it is in everyday life that the places of contact between the two opposing worlds, materialize with the imagination, both expressions of a single EGO.
The zoomorphic creature breaks into the scenes bringing with it its natural element, water, which oxidizes metals, stains of moisture paper and inks and alters the balance and materials.
The three‐dimensionality of the scenes is obtained manually, with overlays and rips that reveal the action of the background character, and with a subsequent manipulation to the press, through the use of copper and brass wires, bolted iron plates, glazes, clips of sampling, cotton seam and an authentic surgical suture performed by a Veterinarian Surgeon.
Some metals have been pre‐oxidized with various acids, also photographic, to transmit immediately to the spectator, the transforming power of the aquatic element, while others have been left natural, because time continues to leave its marks on metals and paper spontaneously.
For this purpose, the choice of materials was functional to the immediately desired result and in the future.
De Profundis consist of 8 pieces in black deep box whit passepartout.
