Mapping the Ephemeral: The Process Behind My Artistic Practice

I have always been drawn to how what seems stable quietly transforms over time. My work begins from that intuition — that even light refuses to stay still. Exploring the present and its fragility has become the axis of my practice, where color and geometry act as languages through which I reflect on time.

Image: The sky as an archive of time: each transition of light becomes visual matter.

Observing the Sky

Fronteras Vivas was born from observing the sky — its shifting gradients and their unrepeatable nature. Watching the sky is an act of attention: a way of registering time that leaves no trace. Each chromatic transition becomes a kind of luminous cartography, a living frontier between what has been and what is about to fade.

From those observations, I construct visual matter. Using photographs taken at different moments of the day, I translate light transitions into digital gradients that function as landscapes of the instant — abstractions of time itself.

Image: Chromatic registration of the sky used as a reference for the development of the work.

From Record to Vibration

Working with lenticular printing allows me to transform these gradients into structures that vibrate with the

viewer’s gaze. The surface moves, the color shifts, perception becomes unstable. What once appeared still reveals its fragility, reminding us that reality itself is a moving construction.

Color ceases to be an image and becomes an experience — a perceptual event. My aim is not to represent the sky, but to recreate its ephemeral condition: its way of existing only while being seen.

Image: The gaze returns to the work, as if searching to recognize the instant from which it emerged.

Dwelling in the Ephemeral

Each work I create is an attempt to give form to the unstable — to materialize what exists only in transit. My practice does not seek to capture the moment, but to expand it. I am interested in creating a space where the gaze can linger, where the ephemeral gains density and can be inhabited.

Color, in its constant vibration, becomes a metaphor for the present: fragile, shifting, impossible to retain. It is within this tension between permanence and dissolution that my work finds its meaning.

“I don’t seek to fix the ephemeral, but to materialize its transit.”