Immersions into Nature and Death

In 2021 I started spending more extended periods of time in nature and as a result of my "immersions in nature", I left my job as a curator decided to return to my art, after an inactive period of 15 years in which I devoted myself exclusively to curating and teaching. Sine then, I have worked with my body and photography, producing images that arose from a deep connection with nature and the unconscious. I called this practice Poetics of Transmutation. I soon realized I was staging deaths inspired on Millais' Ophelia (1851-2), and started to think about my grandmother's tragic death (suicide) in Uruguay, which saw her drowned in the river and washed ashore. A year after staging a series of different Ophelias and working with a variety of natural elements creating sculptures and photographs, I finally understood I was somehow "transmuting" a family trauma connected to my grandmother's death. The last image in the brief series I am submitting here, "Phoenix awakening", signals the final transmutation of the trauma and the beginning of a new chapter/series in my work. In all these images, I am interested in how the image and the lived-experience are part of the same point of origin