Elements, natural and artificial, ignite an exploration of a landscape that breathes, evolves, transforms, and at times, is irrevocably altered. It's as if capturing an echo of the vast distance between yesterday and today.

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This project seeks to illuminate the enduring connection between the mines of Cyprus and the island's history and economy.

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The remnants of this industrial activity stand as a constant visual narrative, weaving together the past and the present.

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The absence of the workers, their sweat, their struggles, their very breath, resonates deeply within the presence of the living and inanimate materials that remain. Yet, new connections are forged in their place.

There were countless days when the silence was broken only by the whispers of aged metals, a language all their own. The paths were solitary and long, and the repeated visits to familiar and newly discovered sites, across seasons and years, spanned four years.

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Each visit revealed or concealed something new: a new structure, a different breath of the landscape.

Another space, both familiar and alien, intimate yet unknown, contracted and expanded like a vein, a pulse waiting to be felt, waiting to be heard.