Crossed Cultures

Coming to a new place on the planet always implies processes of adaptation and resilience based on one's own culture and worldview. Still, in the main cities where I have lived, I have always found patterns of behavior among people, rules, traditions and lifestyles.

Crossed cultures is a project based on landscape photography and pattern design. It is a mixture of shapes and colors that generate optical illusions from the atmosphere of different places. Of course, these are only part of something bigger and more complex, as they have my experiences between cities and countries as a backdrop. Each composition is loaded with discoveries and meanings from my relationship with people and places that over time have become part of me.

Crossed cultures focuses on geometric compositions in which I look for similarities with the style of American totems from the exploration of colors, shapes and spaces. They are developed from panoramic images of representative sites of each city. Whenever I have decided to migrate, finding a clan was vital to surviving and adapting to a new code of rules and lifestyle. The totems come to be emblems that represent the people I knew and were part of my clan or my tribe. Crossed cultures is the sum of searches and discoveries of myself among the essence of various cities and towns. It is also a tribute to the lives and efforts of those migrants who open paths and erect signs on their journey through the world.

“I’ve lost count of how many times I've returned to this city, but it has been more than to the city I was born in”.

— Jd