The cloister and the flight

This photographic series explores the home as a paradoxical space where refuge and longing, roots and departure, coexist in constant tension. Through an intimate, poetic gaze, the work approaches domestic architecture as a lived body, an active space that accumulates, protects, and bears witness to the layers of time. The title, The Cloister and the Flight, synthesizes this essential duality: the cloister as a metaphor for the protective womb, the sanctuary of memory, and the shadow that cradles pain; and flight as a symbol of emancipation, the necessary transition, and the light calling from the threshold. Thus, the house reveals itself as the container of both forces: it is, at once, the nest that shapes us and the sky we project from the window. The images linger on the details that materialize this paradox: windows operating as both boundaries and openings; objects laden with personal history that speak of permanence and abandonment; and the traces of dwelling impressed upon