Blanket Bay 3 (Nueva Zelanda)

Pío Cabanillas. Blanket Bay Series (New Zealand) (2024). Technique: Digital, Hahnemülle Fine Art Paper, Dibond 3 mm, neutral Ph adhesive. Wooden frame. Natural beauty envelops us, it defines our idea of harmony, of perfection and chaos, it is the artist and the work at the same time, it is sometimes sober and austere, and sometimes surprisingly baroque, full of forms that are the product of chance. Nature is there, it coexists, even if it has to be discovered again and again. It poses to the observer all the questions and answers around which the world of art, and that of photography in particular, revolves, but it must always be treated as something new, as an unknown. The extraordinary excludes the mind from being anchored in the apparently correct camera placement, and our mission is to unveil that which eludes the first glance. Structures, forms - defined or not - textures, lines, lights and shadows, are present before our eyes, at the disposal of our creativity and capacity of expression. An intrinsic beauty, in the whole and in the details, which is not a mere decoration, but the essential framework and content to share the concerns of a photographer, and an invitation to the viewer to discover and enjoy it.