Alfonso Brezmes

Through the Looking Glass Alfonso Brezmes

I am grateful to Julian for introducing me to the work of Spanish artist Alfonso Brezmes. Be prepared to take some time because each "room" from photography, to collages, to animations, and DO NOT miss his blog (do not be dissuaded, an English translation is kindly below the Spanish on each post for those of us who took Latin and French), is truly an amazing experience. You will feel as if you have fallen down the rabbit hole.

from his blog:

"Photography & fiction

How to create with a tool born to copy reality? In front of this question the first reaction would be to think that a photography is a piece of reality. And, nevertheless, there begins the deception: becaause in this process of selecting reality and rescue it from the unendless passage of time that is photography, there is already the hand and the eye of the artist, that pretentious Prometeo that tries to steal the fire from the gods, the always unembraceable reality. To this vain task of shamming reality I submit every day, to this illusory task of bringing from the oblivion histories that lie buried in the sea of lost fictions...

Someone has proposed me to give a lecture on photography and I have thought precisely in this topic: Photography and fiction, since it concerns me very closely, so much, that maybe I have already got lost.. I launch you now the question: what does this topic suggest to you? All kinds of proposals are admitted: thoughts, sensations, graphical or literary material where to rake, authors that you think might fit in this offer, creative contributions, everything ... Anything so as to murder the small worm that makes me bring to the light something I quite cant´t see so clearly. Light, more light, would say our friend Goethe..."

and his February 27 post:

A dictionary for a living...
...that is what I would like to offer you... But, my friends, there are no codes for this harsh task, there are no recipes for how to live, play, feel, love, dream, think, travel, come back... There are only approximations, tries, deceits, small successes...
So, the next exhibit being soon opened, closed, as leaves that born and fall, I thought to offer a dictionary of common pleasures with which to alligerate the heavy task of flying...
This first edition is of only 99 units, numbered and signed. I hope in the future a bigger edition can appear, and I guess the design by the Jin´s smart little head will help to endure the travel through my immensely small and common passions.
But, if you are just looking just for a hospital of broken dreams...., I´m your man...