Added Value

In my visit to the ‘Los colorados’ lake in the paramo of Sumapaz, I observed that the landscape had this tendency to remain still likely because the movement manifested very subtly: the vegetation barely moved under the effect of the wind, and the bugs that flew around were tiny and almost imperceptible. Nothing seemed to change from one second to another, from one minute to another. On the other hand sound suggested movement in the paramo as the frogs sang and water ran through tiny creeks. When I observe, I feel like time tends to freeze as a mental photography that contains the past and future in one moment. When I listen, movement and change inevitably manifests as I feel submerged in a stream of events where nothing remains still. The title of the artwork concerts Michael Chion´s ‘added value’ idea about the expressive or informative value in which sound enhances the visual image. This expression was coined after studying the films of Ingmar Bergman and reading some of his reflections in the subject.