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I photograph in order to raise consciousness about the natural world we are destroying and the artificial world we are creating.

Surfaces is inspired by an inquiry into my experiences of 'nature' during my childhood while growing up at the foot of the Andes mountains in Colombia, South-America, and by my experience of living in cities like New York as an adolescent and adult. Through my work, I am seeking to understand how these ongoing histories and their intrinsic physical worlds affect and shape my experience of being.

My artistic process is structured around a set of rules that use aesthetic elements like design, color and form as organizing principles. This focus allows me to play with the ambiguity between art and photography. All pictures are shot in natural light. I use a digital camera and a single macro lens to rigorously retain consistency of voice throughout the series.

Each picture and/or series is reflective of personal mood, station in life, or reaction to historical events at the moment it was created. The Havasupai series reflects a spiritual longing for rebirth during a visit to the Havasupai reservation in the Grand Canyon in 2005. The Emergence series is created in a state of introspection during a challenging time in life and simultaneously during a tender love affair. On to War: 20 March 2003, from the Southwest by NYC series, was taken during meditations on the U.S. war on Iraq. The Tucson/Amazon: Rainforest & Desert series is inspired by questions about global warming and also an inquiry into the landscapes of colony and conquest. The NYC Pipe Dreams series reflects the spiritual entrapment and the unending flux of physical movement experienced while living and working in New York City for over twenty years. The Aspen Meditation series rose out of a personal need for spiritual solace.

Surfaces studies include: human- and animal-cut bark of Aspen in Northern Arizona; ground details of the 220 million year-old, volcanic ash deposits in Painted Desert, AZ; the walls of Spruce House--the 13th Century, cliff dwelling of ancestral Pueblo peoples--in Mesa Verde, Colorado; the surface of the Havasu River in the Havasupai reservation in the Grand Canyon, AZ; the thermal pools in Yellowstone National Park; the inner world of quartz crystals lit by the unusually red sunset light in Sedona, Arizona; downtown graffiti wall details in New York's meat-packing district; the street columns supporting New York City's now defunct High Line freight train; saguaro cacti in Saguaro National Park and the Tohono O’oham Nation reservation; and tree-barks in Amacayacu National Park in the Amazon rain-forest.

Surfaces is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short story The God's Script; by Richard Misrach's use of aesthetic elements in his representations of nature in his Desert Canto series; by Andreas Gursky's school of documentation; by the drawings and work of the 18th century naturalist and explorer Alexander Von Humboldt; and by the minimalism of Hiroshi Sugimoto's Sea Landscape series.

There are 7 finished SURFACES series, and two in progress. To see complete series, please visit my website www.marcoaureliophoto.com. Please click on SURFACES link.

Surfaces: Aspen Meditations series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches

Surfaces: Emergence series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Yellowstone series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Yellowstone series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Tucson/Amazon series

2006
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Tucson/Amazon series

2006
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Aspen Meditations series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Southwest by NYC series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Southwest by NYC series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Southwest by NYC series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Southwest by NYC series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Emergence series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Surfaces: Southwest by NYC series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

My Memory: Next Week

2008
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
27 by 40 inches

Military Check-Point: On the Road to Peace

2008
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
27 by 40 inches

Aequilibrium Est: Symbiosis series

2008
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
27 by 40 inches

Aequilibrium Est: Symbiosis series

2008
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
27 by 40 inches

Aequilibrium Est: Meditations On Being series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Aequilibrium Est: Meditations On Being series

2005
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.

Aequilibrium Est: Meditations On Being series

2006
C-Print on Kodak Endura metallic paper.
24 by 36 inches.