Lucid dream

As i wright this text I have been in confinement for 85 days, due to the pandemic. I have seen for weeks images of desolate cities, paralyzed means of transport and empty meeting spaces. It seems to me that the first impact of the virus on humanity is manifested above all in the psychic and emotional resonances. I imagine how our memory will build this experience in the future. Optimistic projections say that in two years humanity would return to "normal" activities. In a few years this period will be perceived as an unusual parenthesis in our contemporary history, almost like a strange dream? Just as in dreams, in which the psychic life is exacerbated, in this period the emotions sprout free, deep fears emerge, as do loves, desires or sadness and passions. Inspired by these thoughts, I built a device to make digital captures of images made with a handmade camera obscura. By hybridizing the image of the camera obscura with the digital support, I have the impression of generating a lucid dream. I have always considered that there exists in the image of the obscura camera a magic of the unconscious, a power of connection with the psyche, which gives all its strength to the photographic image. That is why i used it to create a personal diary - unavoidable during the quarantine - of this strange parenthesis of our history. I sense that in the future we will remember it as a dream that, like all dreams, contains the hidden keys to the possible development of our being.