Description
The same shore as the first work in the pair, but with the gaze reversed: here, the drone hovers above the line of breaking waves, where the Atlantic meets the sand of Comporta. The image is built in horizontal strata — the deep green of the open sea, then the fronts of foam advancing in layered lacework, the translucent water sliding over the wet sand, and finally the orange beach, hemmed at the bottom of the frame by the shadows of tufts of vegetation. At the water’s edge, almost imperceptible, a figure walks along the sand, followed by its elongated shadow: it is this figure that gives the spectacle its measure and turns abstraction into an inhabited landscape. The vertical viewpoint reveals what the eye never sees from the beach — the shifting geometry of the waves, their successive overlaps, the endlessly redrawn boundary between water and land. An image of rhythm and matter, in which the ocean seems to breathe before our eyes.
