A Body Made of Weather is an ongoing photographic enquiry bringing together self-portraiture, landscape and the family archive to explore memory, identity and the landscapes of my childhood in northern Spain. Rooted in a visual language shaped by sea, wind, cold and changing light, the work considers how place, autobiographical memory and atmospheric conditions shape our sense of recognition and experience of self.

The project has emerged gradually from strands of work I had previously approached separately — self-portraiture, landscape and place — which I now recognise as parts of the same enquiry.

I am particularly interested in the way certain atmospheric conditions can produce a sense of recognition before a place itself feels familiar. Sea, cold, wind and diminished light recur throughout the work, not simply as backdrop, but as ways of thinking about memory, the body and a connection to an earlier sense of self.

Fragments from an intervention on a family archive portrait of my mother, with traces of her original handwriting visible.

Intervention on a family archive photograph from my First Communion.