Beneath the Serpent’s Spectrum
Beneath the Serpent’s Spectrum is an ongoing climate‑driven project set in the year 2222, where I imagine a world transformed by environmental collapse, myth and technology. Each piece begins with one of my photographs—often of coasts, skies or industrial traces—which is then altered into a dystopian, spectral landscape that carries the scars of what we are doing to the planet today.
For every image I collaborate with Perplexity AI, treating it as an artificial co‑author that writes tales and textual reflections responding to these transformed landscapes, creating a polyphony between Human Speculative Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. The result is a series of visual fables that oscillate between warning and poetry, inviting viewers to read the future in the ruins and colours of the present.
Prints & editorial licensing
Selected works from Beneath the Serpent’s Spectrum are available as limited prints and for editorial licensing through the project’s print gallery. For enquiries about specific images, sizes or uses, please get in touch via the contact page.
Prints & editorials
Transforming Skies
Transforming Skies treats the sky as a form of cultural and emotional heritage, using time‑based images to record how light, colour and weather write themselves into our memory of a place. From London to Costa da Morte, I build sequences where the sky becomes a living magazine, constantly rewritten by clouds, storms and the changing seasons.
The project exists both as a photographic archive and as an audiovisual performance for festivals, galleries and theatres, with skies projected alongside live or recorded sound. Each chapter focuses on a specific territory, inviting viewers to recognise their own skies and reflect on how climate and time are reshaping the atmosphere above us.
Enter : Transforming Skies
Prints & editorial licensing
Transforming Skies includes images and sequences that are available as prints and for editorial use. If you are interested in presenting the project as a live screening or in commissioning a chapter for a specific place, please contact me for details
From Portrait to Self‑Portrait (p2sp)
From Portrait to Self‑Portrait (p2sp) is a long‑term project I began in 1996, built from encounters with artists around the world. For each participant I make a black‑and‑white portrait and then invite them to transform a print of that image into a self‑portrait, creating a diptych that compares how I see them with how they see themselves.
How the project works
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I photograph each artist in a simple black‑and‑white portrait.
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I give them a physical copy of their portrait and ask them to intervene, redraw, erase, collage or rewrite it in any way they like, turning it into a self‑portrait.
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The two images—portrait and self‑portrait—are shown together as a single work, a visual dialogue between external perception and self‑representation.
Over time, this process has created an expanding archive of portrait/self‑portrait diptychs, where each artist corrects, resists or plays with my initial view of them.
Scale and geography
Since 1996 more than 1,200 artists have taken part in p2sp, coming from places such as London, Paris, Barcelona, A Coruña, Nepal and El Salvador. The project has been exhibited in galleries and institutions and published in a first volume that gathers the work of 242 participating artists.
My aim is to continue expanding this archive and, in the long term, to present it as a kind of virtual museum of portrait and self‑portrait, where visitors can wander through many different ways of being seen and seeing oneself.
Participation and use of images
From Portrait to Self‑Portrait is an open project for visual artists who want to take part in this exchange. Originals of the self‑portraits remain with the artists or in the archive and are not for sale; the diptychs are shown in exhibitions, publications and digital presentations, and are available for editorial use only, not as prints.
If you are a visual artist and are interested in participating, please contact me through this site, briefly introducing yourself and your work.
Enter the project archive
The full, evolving archive of p2sp is presented on a dedicated website, where you can browse the slide shows of portrait/self‑portrait diptychs and explore editorials and documentation about the project.