The Path to Shizen

The Path of Shizen is an immersive practice of observation and experimentation in the Argentine Pampas, where Carolina Baldomá lives and develops her work. The artist works with fragmented landscapes in a state of continuous reconstruction. Their fragility emerges in each act of recomposition, unfolding their condition of vulnerability and transformation. In this exploration of the landscape, time and error become constitutive elements of the process. It is a collaborative work with nature, whose interventions introduce unpredictability, variation, and chance into each piece. The technique employed is experimental cyanotype on Japanese paper. The works are exposed outdoors, where they are developed through solar radiation and washed with site water or rainwater. The images are shaped by temporality and seasonal shifts, time of day and atmospheric conditions including humidity, temperature, light sensitivity, and other environmental variables. Subtle variations become visible in each piece, as no repetition of the process yields identical results. Each image operates as a record of site conditions and the moment of its making, resulting in multiple iterations of a single landscape, always different from one another. The outcome is a spectrum of Prussian blue tones, a sensitive code inscribing the traces of the natural world. It is a practice of contemporary alchemy in which science, art, and nature converge. The creative act becomes a co-creation with the environment, where nature, light, and time are transmuted into the materiality of the work.