I. Stay Soft 2016

I stand for a moment, looking outside in at the young women in the countryside with eyes alight and white dresses, just short enough to show bare legs - two young women, open, with long hair, playing with a whistling wind, alive. Their subtle movements, gentle expressions, and the body language they convey... A human being feels one can witness such young women and be removed from one's usual surroundings and journey, and be transferred to another. One could witness them and feel they are there to teach one new steps and words, and despite all odds, repeat them.

Why do I feel epiphanic as I photograph ease, softness, and a bare shoulder? Because I realise I have locked myself inside hardness, and I finally know how to get out.

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"Stay soft. For the sake of anyone who cannot feel or swim inside of their own skin, caught between built barriers now solid as stone. Show them the depth of seas. The language of water."

– Victoria Erickson

SWIM
Pigment ink on bamboo fibre cotton rag
84 x 112 cm
2016

UNCAUGHT
Pigment ink on bamboo fibre cotton rag
84 x 112 cm
2016

MY OWN SKIN
Pigment ink on bamboo fibre cotton rag
84 x 112 cm
2016

FEEL
Pigment ink on bamboo fibre cotton rag
84 x 112 cm
2016

SHOW THEM
Pigment ink on bamboo fibre cotton rag
84 x 112 cm
2016

IN BETWEEN
Pigment ink on bamboo fibre cotton rag
84 x 112 cm
2016

LANGUAGE
Pigment ink on bamboo fibre cotton rag
84 x 112 cm
2016

Punturiero puts the viewer in a dream-like world of compositions where abstract figures are juxtaposed against organic structures layered on top of one another in a way that compresses space and removes all context and sense of scale. The compositions become like another world where a human body merges with the environment and transform to become new organic structures.