With this body of work, Riu Llobregat, my first project in Spain, I continue exploring representations of absence and loss in the landscape as I have done over the last decade in the United States and Mexico.

The Llobregat River, a vital natural resource that has enabled for over two centuries the agrarian, industrial and residential development of Barcelona, also serves as the city's main source of drinking water. Here, however, in these photographs, the river, with its muted palettes and nebulous surfaces, becomes more of an elegy than a life-affirming entity.

As in all of my previous work, the photographs in Riu Llobregat are unpeopled. Instead, there are electric pylons of varying sizes, designs, and capacities that are interconnected by cables, and that populate, in close-knit or extended groupings, the banks of the Llobregat and beyond, much like the first nineteenth-century domestic settlements.

In some of the images, the pylons' role is subtle, and instead, trees predominate, playing the same role. Nevertheless, through the repetition of these vocabularies, a strong sense of union and permanence emerges. Juxtaposed, the river with the pylons and trees, there is a suggestion of longing for what was, or perhaps a reminder of what remains despite the loss.