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Mstica X
Photographs and text by

Brandn Gmez (/brandan-gomez)

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds.

Franz Kafka
This is the story of a failure.
Religion, new age movements and childhood tales tell us that there is something beyond
reason, those stories talk about transmigration, devils, goodness, heaven and hell. They
have been passed on from fathers to sons, generation after generation. They have created
systems of beliefs that have affected our morals and ethics.

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Thousands of books have been written, some with scientific intentions. I have never had a
proof that any of these were real so I have unconsciously started a personal project to
create images that try to fulfill this lack. In an apparent chaos, these images describe an
unreal landscape where, as a healing process, I photograph objects and situations, in
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disorder. I manipulate and combine them in order to create an iconographic space where
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A photographer with a Japanese mother and
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heritage through a series of factual, fictional
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