“One green eye, one blue eye” emerges from the changing landscape of Campanhã, where old abandoned industrial infrastructures are being erased and reused for luxury real estate developments. Through an experimental approach to image, the project questions who and what can inhabit these transitional spaces?
I collected plants from the ruins of old textile factories and the land around the old power station to create a herbarium of the Anthropocene, using solar photographic processes such as cyanotypes and phytograms. (...) In collaboration with algorithmic agents, I generated bio-images that function as a speculative extension of this research. the information collected was coded into prompts to generate new images, expanding the reading of the territory through artificial intelligence processes. These images also served as the basis for the development of new textiles, produced in digital printing factories, creating a new layer of materiality and circulation for the traces of Campanhã.
(...) Perhaps this project is also about listening to the visible, about the possibility of perceiving what no longer sounds but still vibrates. About an archive that doesn't close up in silence, but continues to generate new frequencies-like the ruins, which are never empty, but inhabited by histories, ecosystems and resistances that refuse to disappear.”
— Paula Roush