Clepsydra

In 2020, an encounter with a waterfall marked the beginning of a series of explorations into the most vulnerable materiality of photography and its relationship with time. Clepsydra takes its name from an ancient Egyptian instrument used to measure time by observing the flow of water. Inspired by these timekeeping devices, I developed decantation processes using cyanotype photographic emulsion. Through various series, the project explores photography as a body vulnerable to time, presenting objects that transform according to the lighting conditions of their environment. Like any image, they reveal the beauty of a fluctuating world, fossilized, as a human resistance to a constantly moving world.