I have always lived in cities, surrounded by concrete and glass. Drawn to faraway landscapes, I explore Google Earth like a modern-day tourist, searching for places that feel strange and unfamiliar. To me, images of remote wilderness often seem more like alien worlds than parts of our own planet.

My Terra Cognita series is based on aerial views of isolated places. Seen from a satellite’s perspective, it’s hard to tell the difference between a mining quarry and a desert valley, an extraction site and a salt flat. They all look barren, yet strangely beautiful.

I’m not interested in ranking these landscapes as natural or unnatural, valuable or ruined. Instead, I present them side by side, treating them as part of a single, ever-changing environment. Through this, I explore how landscape art can evolve to reflect our complex relationship with nature today.

By recreating these images in clay, I bring a physical presence to places that are otherwise out of reach—sometimes even off-limits. Hung on a wall, within arm’s length, they seem to say: I was here. This allows the viewer to connect with the unfamiliar and experience the unreachable up close.