© 2021 Oscar Palacio
About the Project
“In a recent New York Times essay entitled "Leaving Only Footsteps," the writer Christopher Solomon argues convincingly that even our most benign intrusions into nature (and they are rarely only that) result in disaster. Oscar Palacio’s photographs included in this exhibition could serve as the precise illustrations of that discovery. He traces the human in fragments left behind, some resembling the debris of a kidnapping, or a prison escape, underlining that peculiar paradox of nature’s reality being heightened in the presence of trash. And then there are the athletes who have made the circuit of Walden a place of physical exercise, running after immortality. Palacio follows in their trail with a video essay that marks each of his steps with a single frame, realizing the simple mystery of a landscape that can never be known in all its details, no matter how deliberately one moves through it.”
-Stephen V. Kobasa