The Sea

In two days, the 2nd of February in Montevideo , Uruguay, the celebration to the sea goddess Yemanja will take place.( from the imported afro american candomblé traditions, originally of the Yuruba religion) Born from the sea mousse , doughter of Oduduwa and Obatala and wife of Oxzalà , candomblé god of life and purity, Yemanja is the mother of all orishas gods and represents "the Great Mother" as in many other traditions. She wears a light blue dress, sea stones and shells.

Port Augusta is known as the crossroads of Australia. Road trains travel through on route to Perth, Adelaide and Darwin. For Aboriginal people the area was traditionally a meeting point. At last count there were 41 different Aboriginal language groups represented. The Gulf has a popular stretch of shacks known as shack road where locals take their dinghies out to catch squid, fish and crabs. It is also the service town for massive mining communities further north. Next year the Olympic dam open cut mine will become the largest in the southern Hemisphere.

Cascais comprises roughly 30 km of shoreline, of a unique ecological and landscape richness. Tourism and maritime activities are historically relevant and, in some sectors, present a high development potential thanks to the existing infrastructures that allow international nautical events to be held. Moreover, it is still significant the association between local identity and fishing, persisting despite the problems derived from the sector's modernization and adaptation to European Policies.

exploring with a camera the true life of fishes

Here in Huatulco, a little town in Oaxaca Mexico, the locals strive to survive during the low season, until a huge cruise arrives full of potential costumers and is then when the beach gets floded with white people, some mexican families enoying the weather and vendors triyng to make some money to feed their families.

I titled this "The Sea" because the color and texture are dark, deep hues. The figure is of a lighthouse, which make lots of appearances in my work. Lighthouses would not exist without the sea, I would not exist without the sea.

The sea holds all our dreams.