The Materia Series

According to Aristotle, matter is the substratum of every change, of every movement of form. It is a principle of things, constitutive of corporeality. Thus conceived, matter is pure indeterminacy, knowable only indirectly, arguing its existence as necessary for the composition of reality. In this way matter is understood as power, pure capacity, which is nothing, but which can become something. The MATERIA series is part of my research on the concept of informal perception in photography, where matter is used in its different states to explore the expressive possibilities of forms. Some of these states of matter represent extremely fleeting forms, giving life to a composition that lives only for an instant, then disappearing into the matter itself.