This project is inspired by the ability to generate light energy through retro-reflection or how some surfaces, due to their structure, can reflect light back to the light source. This behaviour can be observed, for example, in a mirror, when it is perpendicular to the reflected object—the source. The photograph is a mirror of the past. It is the reflection of a reflection, pure trompe l’oeil: a reflex camera carries a mirror that returns to its natural position that which has been photographed.
In this project it is presented in the form of an installation, showing mirrors, photographs, photodrawings and part of the author’s creative process. Thus, it brings together a collection of images of radio telescopes—light and mirrors —and their capacity to capture material from outside, with special emphasis on the Arecibo Radio Telescope on the island of Puerto Rico, an abandoned power centre from which the United States decided to send terrestrial material into space, awaiting a reply.
