Between the visible and the latent

This series of botanical cyanotypes explores duality as a lived experience, seeing between the visible and the latent. The images were created from modest plants gathered along the roadside: wild carrot, cow parsley, yarrow, shepherd’s purse, and chicory, all carriers of almost forgotten medicinal knowledge.

Developed on transparent paper, the cyanotypes can be read both as autonomous images and as negatives for their complementary positives. Reflections, symmetries, and correspondences shift perception: light moves, contours dissolve, some nuances disappear while others emerge.

The compositions open new perspectives on life between places, languages, and cultures, and on the transmission of impressions, meanings, and memories. The counterimage becomes a metaphor for translation itself: preserving what is essential while leaving space for what remains suspended — a tone, a mood, an afterimage.

In this movement, positive and negative lose their hierarchy. Visible and hidden merge into a quiet revelation where memory, perception, and identity are continuously renegotiated.