Eldorado 009

ELDORADO 009 By Fernanda Rocha El Dorado, Brazil, 2014. Silver halide color photograph printed on archival paper.    ABOUT THIS SERIES - ELDORADO ​Fernanda Rocha's series ​Eldorado embodies the idea of a place that subsists only in the memory, where layers of remembrance are stored. In this mental space there is no permanence as what is now known is no longer as it was once seen. The mind retains the picture of a memory with portions blocked out due to unconscious passive forgetting. In this process, the image once captured is transformed into something new. Yet, each of these images develop a life of their own and become fragments of stories that exist only in the imagination.