Polaris
Fuego // AR-DE
EN LO PROFUNDO, EL NORTE (In the Depth, the North) is a device of existential orientation. It emerges from uncertainty, transforming the search for the North into an act of introspection.
The work is presented as a diptych that exposes the polarity of Polaris (the North Star), a linguistic echo between the star's name and its millenary use as a celestial guide for navigation. This creates a mirroring between the deep sky and the deep ocean, between the migration from south to north and the question: how can I find my path in my upside down perception? What is the guide in the depths?
One photograph shows a star tattooed on the crown of a head, representing an internalised guide as a permanent mark and the body as the ship. The second piece is a pencil drawing of an internal landscape of abstract cartography, tracing the journey of the search toward the pearl, the treasure, the star of the depths.
Both pieces describe two types of landscape: the body as a territory, and the illustration as an intimate search and internal compass. The diptych asks whether, when the sky is inverted and the familiar north is lost, one must look not up but down - into the depths—to find a new guide.
Polaris
Fuego
Diptych of a photograph and pencil illustration
28 x 20 cm each on black box of 45 x 34 x 3 cm,