Where Does the Tree End and the Rest of the World Begin? by Daniela Balestrin

This photographic essay takes a journey through everyday life, exploring the intimacy of things and inviting the viewer to contemplate the extraordinary that is present in the trivial, using their imagination as a vehicle for a journey through universes where one photograph joins another, and another, and another. The photographs are structured in polyptychs – always four in number – in an allusion to the lyric of sonnet stanzas, where the narrative and its rhythm take place within a poetic metric form. The polyptychs were created in 2023 from analogue photographs taken over the last three years; most of the photographs were taken at my home in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.