An Ode to the Mountain

The project "An Ode to the Mountain" arose from direct contact with the natural environments of Cantabria, and it was developed during NAT art residency. The project consists of a two-channel video and performance exploring the experience of the mountain.

Stills from the video "An Ode to the Mountain"
Two channel video HD with sound
6 min 28 sec
Filmed in Cantabria, Spain
2023

Stills from the performance "Inner Clarity"
10 minutes
El Sable beach, Cantabria, Spain
2023

Intention

The project "An Ode to the Mountain" arose from direct contact with the natural environments of Cantabria. The visits to the caves of El Pendo, Las Monedas, El Castillo, and Covalanas, were the starting point; caves millions of years old, world heritage sites.

Get in direct contact with the origins.
Explore the bowels of a mountain.
Experience the geological archive of the world.
Witness absolute darkness.
Take refuge in the eternal present.

The project explores the experience of the mountain. It presents a tribute to the mountain through a ritual of gratitude for that place of inner clarity to which the mountain speaks without words, inviting me to reconnect.

Going into the mountain shows me the transition from resistance to surrender, from chaos to silence, and from weight to lightness. By inhabiting the mountain I rediscovered how to inhabit myself.

An ode to the mountain, an encounter, an intertwining between the mountain and myself through a dance of initiation to contemplation and presence. A dance that approaches a Katsugen Undo, a spontaneous movement that gives way to fluidity, emphasizing what the body already knows, and allowing me to surrender myself to the mountain, which reminds me, again and again, the way back to myself.