There is a rock in the Island of Arousa, Galicia, where the BioCost
group is trying to repopulate Imanthalia Elongata algae. But the
visibility of the seaweed depends on the state of the tides; they can
only do the measurements to know how it is growing when the
sea allows it, whether the weather is more or less favorable. The
key is to see the seaweed together with the metal rectangle they
use, in order to be able to measure the images in the laboratory.
What you read on the first image of each row is the scientific label of the sampling. This indicates the date it was carried out and
by whom. Each row is the actual photographs resulting from the
sampling, cutting out the seaweed that, with the exception of two
days, could not be visible and stitching other images together in
the form of a net. The thread used is the one used by sea collectors.
The following three texts in each column are answers to the following questions: 1. What is your relationship with this area? 2. What is your relationship with this seaweed? 3. When do you plan
to return here? In each row, the person on the label speaks. Érika,
scientist of the group, Breogán, the artist himself, and Braulio, a
local sailor. The artist is the one who transcribes and conducts the
interviews, in texts that are then intentionally scanned and printed
instead of written. The images stitched at the end correspond to
records of the state of the tides during the day of the sampling.
Breogán Xague 