LoHaitz

LoHaitz
In the search through origins, I came across that my second last name, originally wrote as “Loaiza”, comes from the words
in euskera: “Lo” which means a sleep and “Haitz” which means rock.
In the Basque Country, Koba or the caveis a fundamental space, that contains all the layers of history, myth and knowledge through time. In various legends, it was believed that these were occupied by mythological creatures as they were the portals that connected the terrenal life to the nuclei of Earth or the underground world. These were not only inhabited in the imagery of people but also in Paleolithic times where rupestral paintings evidences a coded language in nature to connected with Amalur, Mother Earth.
LoHaitz is a constant hypnagogic journey where portals are the transition elements in the landscape to trespass these
parallel worlds. These are conductors where perhaps that blur boundary that divides them does not really exist. The
project wakes up our senses stimulating the presence of encrypted creatures in nature. It also questions if myth is
sleeping in these elements or if we humans, in actual times, have been submerged into a numb state by our reason where we are loosing sensitivity disabling us to connect and perceive with our purest origin: nature. 

Graphic description of the image displayed in the application: 

It is composed by 3 photographies of the 12 photo series of "LoHaitz". The total canvas measure is 175 x 175 cm with a black background. 

Paper: FujiFlex