‘Mangata’ is a word of Swedish origin with no translation into Spanish that means the path of light that is formed by the reflection of the moon on the water.

Discovering this symbolic association, the poetry it entails and the magical light forming a path in the darkness with multiple interpretations, gives me the opportunity to work on this very suggestive and beautiful concept. This is the starting point for a photographic project that begins in 2019 and will hopefully culminate in a book in 2025.

I went out into nature to look for symbolic, metaphorical relationships, where the branches of a dry tree are transformed into the wings of a crow or the waves of the sea become clouds, giving a nod to time.

I like to play with similarities, to transform branches, clouds, plants, animals... and give them a double meaning, just as moonlight is transformed into a path. I don't know where I read ‘that only the footprint makes one dream’ and it is one of the phrases that accompany me when I look for images that mark that interpretive space.

The clue suggests a trace, a trail that is discovered and takes us into a space open to the imagination. Nature seems to me to be a deep space, a place of connection between beings that relate to each other and where the interplay of life and death appears in every supposed trace. The photographs I propose are diptychs, juxtaposing two images, one next to the other. My intention is to show one thing in order to express or signify another. The visual game that we are invited to play encourages us to see, but above all to imagine. Reality dissolves and is enveloped in an aura of mystery.

The visible world is revealed through interpretative codes where the imagination makes its way and, in each case, marks its own meaning. Each observer will seek their own meaning and interpretation of what underlies the created simile.