I Was Once Between the Moon and the Sun

I Was Once Between the Moon and the Sun is the first series exploring the transformation of girls undergoing the metamorphosis of adolescence, in deep connection with the landscape that surrounds them. Through a poetic visual narrative, the work delves into the synchronicity between the life cycles of these girls and those of nature. The series combines black-and-white and colour photography to create an emotional and symbolic language. The colour portraits depict the girls immersed in the natural environment they inhabit, rooted and in harmony with the earth. At the same time, the monochrome landscapes act as metaphors for their inner worlds. These are subtly surreal scenes, where light and shadow coexist, and suns and moons become indistinguishable from one another. These ambiguities reflect the emotional states of the young women, evoking the dualities inherent to adolescence, where reality and fantasy intertwine in a continuous emotional chiaroscuro. The combination of photographic media, the abstraction of the visual narrative, the timeless quality of the images, and the symbolic dimension that emerges from them gives the work a poetic imprint. There is a distinctive confluence of magical realism and a dreamlike atmosphere that blurs the boundaries between certainty and mystery. The landscape echoes the emotional world of these young women and acts as a sensitive weave that accompanies their metamorphosis and that of the natural world they inhabit.