Woodcut printed with eggshell powder and graphite on paper
Copper leaf
Dimensions 60 x 30 cm
2022

This project arises from the reflection of the concept "Terra incognita", which was used in ancient maps to indicate the limit of geographical knowledge. The use of this inscription makes me think of distant and immeasurable regions, unlikely places and theoretical spaces. In addition, it leads me to imagine the difficulty of making a map of an unknown territory in a historical moment in which discoveries were made through long expeditions. At that time, the role of cartographers was very important, because they not only reproduced the world but also built it. The use of the term "Terra incognita" disappeared from the maps during the 19th century, as the planet earth ceased to be a strange place for humans.

I wonder, what is our "Terra Incognita" today? What are those mysterious and unknown places? Under this concern, I focus my artistic practice as a cartography exercise of a territory that I will never be able to recognize through my body: the universe. I seek to create images and metaphors that relate our place on earth and how we perceive and interpret what we see far away in the sky.