SOHIE

ALTAR

Chile, 2012

 

Embraced by the mountains and the ocean, an arid desert mediates between planes of existence, between the world of men and the world of spirits.

This body of work was taken on a road journey through the North of Chile.  I was struck by the man-made structures that punctuate the liquid abstraction of the vast desert landscape. Being up close, made me conscious of their otherworldliness, located on the fault line of time; fragile whilst timeless, present and absent, connecting the death and the living. I was captivated by the ordinariness of human presence and its surreal coexistence with an untameable desert. 

The colour abstraction reinforces a sense of disquiet and echoes an elusive state of becoming, when worlds silently collide.