estrada fora 1

The Image

A couple dancing on a coastal road at dusk, a weathered house at the left edge, a bird cutting across the sky. The pairing of figure and landscape holds the whole frame together.

The collage is layered from photographic textures, pulled down to pale yellow, slate and black. The dancers read as silhouette first, then the paint splash where the road meets the sea, then the whitewashed wall. Reading is slow on purpose.

First panel of estrada fora, a travel series about the small roads out of the city. The Portuguese phrase means down the road, and it carries that feeling of the trip itself being the point.