Wind

• Photographer
  Ximena Bares
• Photo Date
  Sept. 2020

This photo was taken in autumn last year, in a reservoir very close to where I live, in the Sierra de Gredos. I wanted to capture the sunset of the day to give more strength to the image, in which I show myself offering a solitary prayer to the mountains, the water and all the nature that surrounds me, naked and without any kind of disguise; just caressed by the soft and silent wind.

Photography is a practice that allows me to play as if I were an eight-year-old with all the toys in the world within my reach. In that constant and inevitable play, reality becomes the basis for the creation of situations escaping that same reality by evoking dream-like, sometimes unsettling images. I am drawn to the world of dreams, to human psychology, to the exploration of the different identities we take on to protect ourselves from a menacing outside world and to how individuals relate to their own solitude. The rural environment in which I live, which is at the same time raw and overwhe