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Camera: Canon Power Shot G7 in video mode (1024x768 - 15 fps). Editing software: Sony Vegas Pro 8.
Video made from a combination of a self-portrait and footage shot at the tubular aquarium of ‘Loro Parque Zoo-Aquarium’, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. A ‘mirror effect’ was applied to the aquarium footage, and Photoshop was used to remove the head from the portrait and to insert the stars constellation that can be seen in the last take. Apart from that, no other effects, filters or plug-ins were applied in the making of this piece. Music: “Sit back and relax”, by Hans Zimmer, from the movie “The Thin Red Line”. The constellation displayed is Cancer (♋): stargazing.net/david/constel/constel/cancer.html



"Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier. The discovery of a new world, in the form of an atmosphere filled with transparent creatures, would be the beginning of a knowledge of the vast unknown. But beyond opens up the illimitable domain of the possible, teeming with yet other beings, and characterised by other phenomena. All this would be nothing supernatural, but merely the occult continuation of the infinite variety of creation. Sleep has a close relation with the possible, which we call also the ‘invraisemblable’. The world of sleep has an existence of its own. Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell us that a column of air forty-five miles in height continually presses, is wearied out at night, sinks into lassitude, lies down, and finds repose. The eyes of the flesh are closed; but in that drooping head, less inactive than is supposed, other eyes are opened. The unknown reveals itself. The shadowy existences of the invisible world become more akin to man; whether it be that there is a real communication, or whether things far off in the unfathomable abyss are mysteriously brought nearer, it seems as if the impalpable creatures inhabiting space come then to contemplate our natures, curious to comprehend the denizens of the earth. Some phantom creation ascends or descends to walk beside us in the dim twilight: some existence altogether different from our own, composed partly of human consciousness, partly of something else, quits his fellows and returns again, after presenting himself for a moment to our inward sight; and the sleeper, not wholly slumbering, nor yet entirely conscious, beholds around him strange manifestations of life–pale spectres, terrible or smiling, dismal phantoms, uncouth masks, unknown faces, hydra-headed monsters, undefined shapes, reflections of moonlight where there is no moon, vague fragments of monstrous forms. All these things which come and go in the troubled atmosphere of sleep, and to which men give the name of dreams, are, in truth, only realities invisible to those who walk about the daylight world. Dreams are the aquarium of the night". Victor Hugo, ‘The Toilers of the Sea’ (Les Travailleurs de la mer) (unknown translator).



Cámara: Canon Power Shot G7, en modo vídeo (1024x768 - 15 fps). Software de edición: Sony Vegas Pro 8. Vídeo hecho con una combinación de un autorretrato y metraje grabado en el aquario tubular del zoo-aquario ‘Loro Parque’, Tenerife, Islas Canarias. Se aplicó un ‘efecto espejo’ al metraje del aquario, y se usó photoshop para eliminar la cabeza del retrato y para insertar la constelación que puede verse en el último plano. Aparte de eso, ningún otro efecto, filtro o plug-in fue aplicado para la realización de esta pieza. Música: ‘Sit back and relax’, de Hans Zimmer, de la película ‘La Delgada Línea Roja’. La constelación mostrada es Cancer (♋): elcielodelmes.com/Constelaciones/Cancer.php



"La ensoñación, que es el pensamiento en estado de nebulosa, confina con el sueño y tiene en éste su frontera. El aire habitado por transparencias vivientes sería el comienzo de lo desconocido, pero más allá se ofrece la vasta abertura de lo posible. Allí hay otros seres, otros hechos; nada sobrenatural, sino la continuación oculta de la naturaleza infinita. El sueño está en contacto con lo posible, a lo que nosotros llamamos lo inverosímil. El mundo nocturno es un mundo. La noche, como noche, es un universo. El organismo material humano, sobre el que pesa una columna atmosférica de quince leguas de altura, se siente fatigado por la noche, cae de cansancio, se acuesta y descansa; los ojos de la carne se cierran; entonces, en esa cabeza amodorrada, menos inerte que lo que se cree, se abren otros ojos; aparece lo desconocido. Las cosas oscuras del mundo ignorado se acercan al hombre, sea que exista con él una comunicación verdadera, sea que las lontananzas del abismo experimenten un aumento visionario; parece que los seres vivientes indistintos del espacio vienen a mirarnos y que sienten curiosidad por nosotros, los vivientes terrestres. Una creación fantasma asciende o desciende hacia nosotros y nos envuelve en un crepúsculo; ante nuestra contemplación espectral una vida distinta de la nuestra, compuesta con nosotros mismos y otra cosa, se agrega y se disgrega; y el durmiente, no del todo vidente ni del todo inconsciente, entrevé esos animales raros, esas vegetaciones extraordinarias, esas livideces terribles o sonrientes, esas larvas, esas máscaras, esas figuras, esas hidras, esas confusiones, esos claros de luna sin luna, esas oscuras descomposiciones del prodigio, esas crecientes y menguantes en un espesor turbio, esas flotaciones de formas en las tinieblas, todo ese misterio al que llamamos sueño y que no es otra cosa que la proximidad de una realidad invisible. El sueño es el acuario de la noche". Victor Hugo, 'Los trabajadores del mar' (traducción de Luis Echávarri, Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007)

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  • kateopolis 1 year ago
    too uncanny...we were just discussing this book only a few days ago....very nice illustration of the "aquarium of the night".
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  • MariaNYC plus 2 months ago
    I could never place my finger on what the opening of this reminds me of but I see now. There is a painting in the studio with tons of little fish like, each fish meticulously painted by hand, I will have to take a picture and send it to you. The beginning looks like the painting is coming alive.
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