Neon Country

This series continues an exploration of rural landscapes through the use of artificial light, where color reshapes the familiar into something ambiguous and cinematic. What began during the summer months, surrounded by dense greens and long evenings, now extends into winter, where the environment becomes quieter, more exposed, and more unforgiving.

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In these colder conditions, the work shifts. Vegetation recedes, structures stand more isolated, and the absence of color in the landscape allows the gels to take on a more dominant role. Light no longer competes with its surroundings but defines them. Fields, paths, and forgotten objects emerge from darkness in saturated tones, creating a tension between what is natural and what is constructed.

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The project remains rooted in observation rather than intervention. Each scene is found, not staged, but the introduction of flash disrupts its original atmosphere. The result is a recontextualization of the countryside, where stillness is interrupted and the ordinary becomes momentarily unfamiliar.

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By combining images across seasons, this body of work reflects on how light interacts not only with space, but with time. The same locations transform under different conditions, yet the underlying approach remains consistent: to use color as a way of seeing differently, and to reveal details that would otherwise go unnoticed.