11/06/2026
Neblina
is a photographic series created at Quinsa Cocha, a lagoon high in the Sacred Valley of the Andes. The work unfolds as a sequence of images accompanied by an experimental sound composition created with analog synthesizers, conceived as part of the same experience and landscape.
During a winter visit, the fog descended so densely that it erased the landscape completely. I kept walking, drawn by the silence, the cold, and the solitude of the mountain. At one point, without realizing it, I had already stepped into the lagoon itself. Only when I felt my boots becoming wet did I understand how thoroughly the mist had dissolved every boundary between land and water.
I sat down for a moment and waited.
As the fog slowly began to shift, fragments of another world emerged. Farmers were working the fields. A woman appeared, then a man. Shepherds moved through the whiteness alongside their alpacas. They seemed to materialize and disappear again, camouflaged within the dense veil of mist.
Surprised by the scene unfolding before me, I raised my camera and began to photograph. What I witnessed was ordinary life transformed by an extraordinary atmosphere: people continuing their daily routines beneath a white curtain that concealed and revealed them at the same time.
The experience felt deeply real, yet dreamlike. Everything was white. I seemed to be walking inside a dream where distant silhouettes surfaced briefly on the horizon before fading back into silence.
The accompanying sound piece, created with analog synthesizers, does not seek to describe the landscape but to inhabit it. Like the fog itself, the sounds drift between presence and absence, between memory and perception.
Neblina is a reflection on that fleeting moment, when the mountain disappeared and only shadows, sound, memory, and presence remained.
