Santiago Díaz Escamilla

Intervalo
Interval

2018 - Ongoing

Single-channel video

For two months, I make sporadic visits to the Astronomical Observatory of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. With the help of students and astronomers, I attempt recording as many images of the Sun as I can through a telescope. However, varying weather conditions and, in particular, the frequent presence of clouds shift the observation exercise —which I presumed straightforward— into a task of prolonged and conscious attention, focused on witnessing a fleeting phenomenon’s occurrence.

This video makes part of a process in which I begin to materialize an interest in looking for ways to interact directly with “forces.”

With that purpose, I assume a will to observe, seeking to direct all my efforts in practicing such action by closely examining my surroundings rather than pursuing a final aesthetic outcome.

I want to avoid falling into a dichotomizing position that detaches me from the world. That is to say, to refrain from becoming a subject that always looks from a distance —making a separation between himself and “things” prevail— but at the same time wants to dissect, categorize and define everything.