The coast is not only a place we inhabit. It is a living environment that we constantly influence, transform and depend upon.
My interest in the coast has always included this relationship between human presence and the natural environment. Beaches are shaped by tides, erosion, vegetation, sediments and climate, but also by tourism, construction, infrastructure and the ways in which we occupy them.
Flesh Sand observes these relationships as part of the territory.
The Environment layer is therefore transversal to the project. It does not aim to classify beaches as good or bad, natural or artificial, preserved or damaged. It simply adds another perspective to the places I photograph, recording what can be observed and documented.
This approach also connects with the idea of the Symbiocene: a possible cultural transition towards a relationship between humans and the living systems around them based more on coexistence, interdependence and care than on separation and domination.
I do not consider this a finished field of research. It is a direction I want to develop within Flesh Sand over time, following the coast and paying greater attention to the environments in which we live, move and build our temporary worlds.
The beach is a territory shared between human life and the living environment that surrounds it.