Subterranean Pulse
(part of Herbaria of Light)
Herbaria of Light is a photographic series born from direct experience in the landscape. Walking, listening, sensing, I encounter wild plants, minimum units of landscape, that embody memory and atmosphere in their fragile forms. I collect them and project their silhouettes onto expired photographic papers, using reused chemicals and analog processes. Photography returns to its root meaning: writing with light. The same light that once nurtured growth now reveals and immortalizes.Marked papers, fragile plants, and chemical accidents converge to create sensitive traces. Neither faithful reproductions nor scientific classifications, but a collection of instants. In a world saturated with digital images and AI fictions, this practice stands as a gesture of resistance: valuing the slow, the manual, the material.
Within this series, Subterranean Pulse is a polyptych (28 × 35 cm, 4 quadrants) that evokes the moment when winter begins to yield. The air, still cold, meets the first rays of spring sunlight, and the earth slowly warms, releasing the pulse of renewal.
There, where the invisible sustains the visible, roots emerge as traces of a vital force that persists and expands silently beneath the surface, containers of life in potential. At the same time, the first shoots prepare for the open air, with fragile, trembling leaves that dance with the wind and strengthen under the overwhelming light of the Pampas plain.
The polyptych records this transition. It is the wild plants, minimum units of landscape, anonymous characters that resist and persist, who give origin and identity to each season. Underground is a hymn to the latent, to what germinates in shadow before opening itself to the world.
