Watercolor is a painting technique applied on paper or cardboard using colors diluted in water. One of its distinctive characteristics is the creation of translucent effects through subtle tonal layers, achieved by mixing pigments with a specific amount of water. This technique, known as washes, originated in ancient China. In Europe, its predecessor was fresco, a technique that used pigments diluted in water applied on wet lime mortar.

Aguadas is a series that leads me to once again explore the pictorial world through photographic art. For this work, I used the "watercolor digital filter" present in the latest Olympus models and the first OM System models. This filter, with a logarithmic construction based on a very limited color spectrum and a pronounced acuity grid, stands out for its evident artificiality. Although I am not particularly fond of photographic effects, the first time I used this filter, I experienced a bittersweet sensation due to its dichotomy between falseness and beauty. However, its aesthetic was attractive and inspiring to me.

This experience awakened in me the need to delve deeper into the purest essence of watercolor. I took some time to explore it and developed a working methodology that allowed me to intervene in the creative process, diminishing part of the filter’s authority and asserting my active participation in the final result.