Consumption Patterns

«Consumption Patterns» is a series of eight photographic reliefs exploring the accelerating transformation and degradation of the landscape — a direct consequence of modern life, its systems, and consumption habits.

This project traces zones of extraction and accumulation: mining operations, urban sprawl, monoculture agriculture, and more. These places can no longer be seen as isolated or remote. Together, they form a dense, interconnected web of environments that merge, overlap, and reshape the surface of the planet.

Using satellite imagery sourced from Google Earth, familiar yet unsettling landscapes are transformed into negative reliefs — cavities meticulously cut into paper, revealing layers and strata as the scalpel moves. The act of cutting becomes a form of cartography, a way of exposing what lies beneath the visible surface. The resulting images combine fragments from distant, unrelated locations to create impossible, kaleidoscopic geographies that defy orientation and challenge our sense of place.

This interplay of vertical pictorial stratification and horizontal arrangement — with each work unfolding across three panels — highlights the metastasizing, expansionist logic of global capitalism and its relentless reshaping of the environment. What at first appears as an abstract composition is, upon closer inspection, a fragmented archive of planetary wounds.

The work draws attention to the increasing difficulty of reading and understanding the landscapes we inhabit. As environments become sites of constant change, erasure, and reconstruction, traditional markers of location and identity begin to dissolve. These fragmented, hybrid terrains reflect not only the physical consequences of modern consumption but also its psychological and cultural toll.

Ultimately, these landscapes reflect who we are. Maps once offered us the means to locate and orient ourselves in the world. When those coordinates dissolve, we are left wandering, uncertain of where the path might lead — both literally and metaphorically.