/
1
2
3
4
5
·
·
·
·
·
Don Quixote
One of the themes in Cervantes' Don Quixote is the perception of reality not according to reality itself but to our inner reality; as Don Quixote perceived the world the way he saw it not the way it is. The following images (that are made at the industrial harbour of Dunkirk in the north of France) show manipulated topographical landscapes that represent this concept. What is industrial is equivalent to what has “to become”. “Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but which starts again when we are alone. As soon as we become motionless, we are elsewhere; we are dreaming in a world that is immense. Indeed, immensity is the movement of motionless man. It is one of the dynamic characteristics of quiet daydreaming.” Gaston Bachelard, “The Poetics of Space”, translated from French by Maria Jolias.