Adrianna Chlebicka
Still lives
Still lives
Adrianna Chlebicka
The island of Lanzarote has a specific atmosphere. The moment you land there, you realise how quiet and remote this place is. Whether it’s in the capital city of Arrecife or one of the smaller towns, beaches or up on the hills, it always remains quite eerie, uncanny.
The rough landscape, the simple architecture and a cloudless sky aren’t exactly gentle on the eye. Quite the opposite- the vast, bare spaces overwhelm you at first. It is a huge difference to someone coming from mainland Europe.
There, it feels as if life stands still. With these thoughts in mind, I travelled around the island capturing moments of stillness. They are spotted anywhere and everywhere. Neither they have a definite, universal structure. Yet, as I went on working, some places started to look similar to each other. You notice the same patterns repeating themselves.
The same palm tree, the same building, the same road that I have already seen before somewhere else. It’s this repetition or rather, an ongoing loop that only accentuates the uncanniness I have felt whilst being there.
The more you look at these photographs, the more you realise that those still moments become found still lives of the island.