Echo of a Step on Water is a work closely connected to the idea of the impossibility of making a durable sign in determinate circumstances, and it reflects on the concept of the ephemeral in our digital age. Here, I consider water as a medium that carries information, whose action contributes to delineating stratifications and sedimentations, through the process of absorbing and fixing graphite powder between the layers of paper. Metaphorically, water becomes an instrument that allows me to explore the tension between presence and impermanence, in a continuous fluctuation between memory and remembrance. A step on water is a sign and not a sign at the same time. It speaks about a trace, an emotional trace that reactivates the observer’s intimate perception of the flows of memory references, personal and collective, through an emotional echo of the gaze. It is a trace left by memory on a fluid ground.
