The “found paintings” project is the result of a hybrid attempt between seeing, choosing, capturing, archiving, editing and transferring natural signs form the environment on paper.
It’s an ongoing project, started in 2023, by self-publishing an edition under the same name.
When seen abstract shapes and marks that are casted by natural effects (cracks, moist) on random surfaces such as walls, rocks, water, or plants the imagination gets triggered. By utilizing photography as a different way of approaching painting, these forms are captured and treated as found objects that visualize the signs of time on matter. During this process the frame and synthesis of the photographic depiction must be approached in a way a painting is approached-emphasizing the close connection between painting and photography within the optical communication realm. To do so, some choices must be made, such as what forms would work and how to abstract them out of its surroundings by adjusting the frame of the photograph.
When one is working in this way, is like the painters’ studio goes for a walk in the streets, or through another perspective, is similar to found paintings hunting.
Found paintings.
2023. Cuenca, Spain.
68 pages, plus cover.
Digital print on 180gr paper. Pamphlet stitch binding. A5 size book. Edition of 30.