The series Rewriting explores the transformation of Santiago through the concept of the palimpsest—a writing surface used multiple times, with traces of earlier texts still visible beneath the new. Cities can be understood similarly: layered, overwritten, and marked by the passage of time. Urban space becomes a manuscript in flux—constantly revised in ways that are often non-linear, fragmented, and unpredictable. Like a patchwork quilt of contrasting textures, colours, and materials, the city reveals its history through these overlapping traces.
The series portrays the city not as a finished product but as an ongoing process of change. It documents various layers of transformation—surfaces, materials, architecture, neighbourhoods—focusing on shared aesthetics and the idea of found sculptures: structures and fragments that are both witnesses and protagonists of urban change. From altered walls to buildings in mid-transformation and entire neighbourhoods in flux, the series digs into the exposed identity of the city, uncovering how it transforms and searching for a shared visual language in a city marked by deep segregation and inequality.
From a personal perspective, Rewriting speaks to the layering of past and present experiences, becoming a record of rediscovery—an intimate palimpsest of both the city and the self.