Achados & Perdidos - Lost & Found
Lost & Found exhibit premiered at the Smith
Ranch Studios in San Rafael, CA, US, in July 2005.
For full size images of the mounting and opening of
the show, click on thumbnails .
You can read more about this work at the bottom of this page.
 Opening the package |
 The first prints |
 Carrying the prints |
 On the floor |
 Suzie checks out the prints |
 My friend Alan helps hanging |
 Alan sets the lights |
 My dear friend Yoshi, observing. |
 The show is ready |
 Images on the corner |
 The back wall |
 Pipes and vase |
 The great day! |
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 Me and my guests |
 What is all this about? |
Achados & Perdidos - Lost & Found As time flows the endless process of creation and destruction unfolds relentlessly. Achados & Perdidos - Lost & Found is a dive into this flow, rescuing items that had past our perception and were on their way to oblivion. I've always been fascinated by the human capacity of reversing, so to speak, the flow of time and entropy. Life itself is the only force of nature that can, consistently, create order from chaos. Man, as a living force, can build, protect, restore. So can he forget, abandon and destroy. We have, in ourselves, both the forces of construction and destruction, much like the Hindu trinity of Brahma, the creator; Vishnu, the preserver; and Shiva, the destroyer. In this work I tried to play Vishnu, the preserver, fighting against Shiva, the destroyer. Collecting small items and objects during my errands I made a small sample of what goes unnoticed into Shiva's hands every day. It's a wealth of colors, textures, forms and meanings that, if brought back to life, shine with radiant intensity. These images remind us of how much we lose in the everyday life by not truly using our perception to sense the world around us. Brasilia, the super modern capital of a third world country and San Francisco, the super wealthy city of the US, come together in this installation. As with every person, these cities have their own personalities. This is reflected by what was lost and found on their streets. By choosing the objects and holding them on the top of a flatbed scanner I create images that translate my deepest view of the Vishnu in every one of us. Fernando Ribeiro - San Rafael, CA, US. 07/2005. |