Impressions of the Ocean
With Impressions of the Ocean, I seek less to represent the sea than to preserve a sensation of it.
This series grew out of my desire to move beyond a descriptive representation of the seascape. When facing the ocean, I am particularly sensitive to what is constantly in motion: light, waves, the lines of the horizon, shifts in color, and changes in atmosphere. Over time, I began to focus on translating these perceptions rather than documenting a specific place.
Through intentional camera movement, forms dissolve, details disappear, and the ocean becomes a succession of lines, rhythms, light, and color. The landscape remains perceptible, but it gradually ceases to be a place and becomes a more inward experience.
The eleven works explore this boundary between reality and abstraction. Some still retain the presence of a horizon or a wave; others reduce the scene to a few fields of color and almost painterly movements. Their sequencing follows a progression from silence and space toward greater movement, texture, and depth.
This series differs from my more figurative work through a more deliberate process of simplification and transformation of reality. The ocean is no longer simply a natural subject: it becomes a visual material through which I explore memory, rhythm, and perception.
Impressions of the Ocean seeks to capture what remains when description fades away: the memory of a light, the rhythm of a wave, a color, a presence.
