One Hundred Abstractions

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 12 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 12. Roca y cemento. Pic by MVelandiaMphoto Roca y cemento. Ninguna copia de la realidad es tan realidad. Rock and cement. No copy of reality is so reality.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 11 Metal y musgo sobre roca  Metal and moss on rock.  San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 11.  Metal y musgo sobre roca/  Metal and moss on rock. Pic by MVelandiaMPhoto Metal y musgo sobre roca. Verdes, azules, rojizos… la riqueza tonal que une el vegetal y el mineral. Metal and moss on rock. Greens, blues, reddish ... the tonal richness that unites the vegetable and the mineral.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 10 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 10. Pic by MVelandiaMPhoto Óxido sobre roca. Con el paso del tiempo se evidencian los efectos del óxido sobre la roca. Rust on rock. With the passage of time the effects of rust on the rock become evident.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 09 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 09. Pic by MVelandiaMPhoto Pequeños hongos colonizan una piedra y sobreviven al trajín del deambular cotidiano de los transeúntes. Small mushrooms colonize a stone and survive the bustle of the daily roaming of passers-by.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 08 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 08. Pic by MVelandiaMPhoto. El óxido transforma una a una las capas de pintura. The oxide transforms the paint layers one by one.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 07 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 07. Pic by MVelandiaMphotomobile Los efectos del óxido nos dan la idea de que la realidad también es abstracta. The effects of rust give us the idea that reality is also abstract.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 06 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Los musgos y los helechos son representantes de uno de los grandes grupos del reino vegetal, el de las criptógamas o plantas sin flores (“con sexualidad escondida”). Mosses and ferns are representatives of one of the great groups of the plant kingdom, that of the cryptogams or plants without flowers ("with hidden sexuality").

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 05 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 05 Pintura verde sobre oxido. Nada pueda ocultar lo que está dañado. Green paint on rust. Nothing can hide what is damaged.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 04 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 El salitre del mar corroe los metales y deja la huella del paso del tiempo. The saltpeter of the sea corrodes the metals and leaves the mark of the passage of time.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 03 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Abstraction 03 A diferencia de la vida, las vías nos demarcan el camino. Unlike life, the tracks mark our path.

Draft "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 02 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Todos los días transitamos sobre las aceras y calles, pero no solemos detenernos a mirarlas. Every day we walk on the roads, but we do not usually stop to look at them.

Draft  "One hundred abstractions: A street look" Abstraction 01 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain @MVelandiaMPhoto 2016/2020 Una mirada a la belleza cotidiana de las calles de San Sebastián, País Vasco, España. Realizadas con móvil, destacan el colorido de los espacios transitados cotidianamente; a los que los espectadores, usualmente, no logran contemplar. A look at the everyday beauty of the streets of San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain. Photomobiles, they highlight the color of the daily traffic spaces, those that the spectators, usually, do not manage to contemplate.