“To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour”. William Blake
Since its origins, photography has been considered an art ontologically linked to time.
But what is time? Perhaps to answer this question would be like trying to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and the eternity of an hour… as William Blake wrote in Auguries of Innocence.
The concept of the aerial becomes a presence in the form of a feather, evidence of wind, lightness, elevation and flight. The volatile figures, the butterfly wings, the light tree branches, the feathers mark a sense of ascension…. a poiesis. The book treasures two significant readings: the book is intellectuality, but also freedom. It is a gateway to knowledge and to the establishment of critical thought. And at the same time it fires the imagination. The roots-branches of the tree as a symbolic image of direct contact and transmission between the subterranean world (as origin) and the aerial world (as horizon and culmination). It leaves in our hands and in our consciences that process of reconstruction, of reinvention, in sum, which is catalyzed through the artistic work, offering the possibility of constructing it.
Aixa Portero
