This photographic series reflects on the concept of the landscape as a cultural asset and product. A natural park can be defined as an institutionalised space in the natural environment intended to be preserved in its supposedly original state, unaltered by human hands. A kind of Eden that matchesthe cultural concerns of a particular time, a space for scientific research, a place that will not only safeguard but can also meet the needs of constructing an identity, that can serve as a setting for myths and, from a more practical perspective, as a consumer asset for the eyes, a tourist destination.

Every society develops and evolves to some extent as a result of its exploitation of natural resources, though this exploitation has become more aggressive and widespread since the Industrial Revolution. Modernity, with its tireless machinery, has modified not just the land but also the ways we perceive and interpret places. A mountain, a river or a tree can be a means to reach the sublime, just as it might be raw material for manufacturing, a duality and redefinition wherein perhaps the function of the concept of the landscape may lie.

"I am interested in the possible parallel between the concept of the monument and the landscape. A monument constructs a memory, it extols values, it is the writing of history from a particular point of view. It is an image that is the product of ideology. The landscape can become a monument when it is turned into a repository of moral values, into a representation of a paradise lost related to origins.

This imaginary is always the projection of a particular culture, and in western culture it has been defined by the history of painting, literature, the performing arts, film, etc. In short, an idealised representation of its condition as habitat that must be unspoiled and wild, beautiful and sublime. Humans do not inhabit it, they only look at it, travel through it and interpret it."