This work tries to understand how the inner workings of the ocean condition the jobs that surround it. It reproduces and combines maps of oceanographic basins from the Galician Bank coast and their sedimentary movements. These images are reproductions based on sonars, they are inaccessible places, with processes that are difficult to see with the naked eye, but which have been taken into account in certain trades since before their explanation was known.
To access these images we have to rethink the mechanisms that create them. Sonar consists of emitting sound waves in the depths with the aim of transferring their bounces and durations to a visual representation. That is to say, they have to take into account cultural values when representing a place, they are a translation of something that by its very nature is not visible to human beings. I return to this idea to transfer these translations to another radically different format: screen printing.
This came to my mind when I saw the exhibition Norusta, by Erlea Maneros Zabala. The whole of it is a reaction to a lithograph of the coast of Lekeitio in the nineteenth century. She considers that this print is an unnecessary idealization of that landscape and begins to work on other ways of approaching it, to understand it from its own functioning.
Breogán Xague 