Marco Antonio Del Castillo Montañez
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Where I Return Without Ever Having Been
In dreams, we can return to places we may have never visited.
Places that exist on no map, yet something within us recognizes.
We do not know whether we are remembering them, imagining them, or whether some part of us still lives there.
As if memory could build temples of its own,
and life were the endless longing for a mystery.
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The Color of Memories
What if memories were not merely images in our minds, but places we could return to?
Within this space, each geometric form represents a fragment of memory: a moment, an emotion, a sensation suspended somewhere in time.
The colors express how each memory feels. Some are warm, others cold; some are uncomfortable, distant, or difficult to understand.
The people walking through this space are not specific characters. They are versions of ourselves entering those memories, crossing paths with who we once were, who we are now, or who we might become.
That is why everything happens at once: different paths, different levels, and different emotions, all coexisting within a single space.
Perhaps remembering is not about looking back.
Perhaps it is about stepping inside again.
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HUMEDAL
What is liquid flows.
And sometimes, we must learn to do the same—
to let ourselves be carried.
Not as surrender,
but as trust.
To flow in order to become abundant,
to receive without resistance,
to release what weighs us down,
and move forward like the current.
The elements do not hesitate.
They do not question their form.
They simply are.
And within that lies a truth no one can take from them.
Water knows how to prevail without imposing,
to transform without breaking,
to change its shape without losing its essence.
And perhaps that is where everything lies:
in understanding that to change
is not to lose oneself,
but to learn how to remain
in a different way.
Redundant,
like truth.
HUMEDAL was influenced by the experimental music of artist Lieeval, whose sound helped shape the atmosphere, movement, and fluid nature of this piece.
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LANDSLIDE.
We are not a single version of ourselves.
We are accumulation.
Layers that form, break, and collapse…
revealing what once was.
Every decision, every connection, every fall…
doesn’t turn us into something new,
it rearranges us.
There are versions of us that no longer exist,
yet they still hold us together.
And others that are just beginning,
pushed forward by everything we’ve been.
It’s not just change.
It’s the inevitability of change.
Because in the end,
we don’t evolve into something different…
we slide across ourselves.
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NOSTAL
There was a time when the whole world fit inside a courtyard.
The warmth of the walls, the shadows moving slowly, the light pouring in as though it were in no hurry. Two bodies suspended in an afternoon that seemed endless, unaware that one day, this scene would become a memory.
NOSTAL was born from that strange place we all try to return to at some point—not necessarily a house, a date, or a particular person, but a feeling. The feeling of being accompanied before we understood what companionship meant. Of playing without realizing we were also creating a language. Of sharing silence with someone and feeling that it was enough.
Some memories cannot be explained because they belong to a private code: colors, objects, shadows, sounds. Small things that might mean nothing to anyone else, but hold an entire lifetime for someone.
This image is not meant to tell a complete story. It leaves a question suspended in time:
What place from your childhood do you still return to when you need to feel safe?
NOSTAL is a pause within time.
A refuge that no longer exists in quite the same way.
A reminder that once, we were small, eternal, and never alone.
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ou’re in love.
Love is inexplicable.
Simple and complex.
Random and symmetrical.
A beautiful contradiction.
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SYNTONALITY
Cada persona es un sistema irrepetible
No two systems sound the same
Analog Personality
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The Clinging Hole
It’s not that something is missing.
It’s that something stayed… and is no longer there.
The void doesn’t scream.
It stays with you.
In your body, in your spaces, in the everyday.
In your bed, in the places where someone used to be.
It doesn’t hurt all the time.
But it’s always there.
Sometimes it doesn’t let you get up.
Not because you’re sad… but because there’s no reason to.
Everything keeps moving.
People keep moving.
Life keeps moving.
You do too.
Just not the same.
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THE ICE ODYSSEY
There is no map.
There is no destination.
There are no promises.
There is only cold…
and the sound of the wind reminding me that I’m still here.
Everything is vast.
Everything is not mine.
And I… barely exist within it.
Every step guarantees nothing.
Every decision could be the last.
But stopping… doesn’t mean being saved.
There is no certainty here.
Only a constant struggle…
with no guarantee.
Sometimes it feels beautiful.
The sky burns, the snow glows, the silence weighs.
And for a moment…
it almost feels like peace.
But it isn’t.
It’s just the world being indifferent.
It isn’t testing me.
It isn’t waiting for me.
It simply exists.
And I have to keep going…
even if I don’t know where.
Even if there’s nothing at the end.
Because in this place…
moving forward is not arriving.
It’s enduring.
THE ICE ODYSSEY is the representation of a solitary journey in its rawest state, where existence means constantly facing the unpredictable: the environment, danger, time, and oneself.
It is a world that is beautiful, yet indifferent… where survival becomes the only purpose, and moving forward does not always mean arriving, but enduring.
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Love
something I still don’t understand at all.
we try to define it,
to understand what it does to us.
how it supports you,
how it pushes you forward,
how it slowly changes who you are.
and even when others see imperfections,
you don’t see them the same way.
maybe you ignore them…
or maybe they just stop mattering.
and somehow, in that moment,
everything feels perfect.
not because it is —
but because it’s yours.
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The Human Hamlet
They don’t know if it’s destination or distraction.
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The White Block
There comes a point where chaos stops feeling poetic…
and starts to feel exhausting.
So we organize it.
We reduce it.
We clean it.
We contain it within something we can understand.
A perfect volume.
Silent.
Still.
But the mind doesn’t work that way.
Outside, everything keeps growing.
Inside, everything remains still.
And in the attempt to feel stable,
we begin to drift away from what we are.
Almost as if we were machines.
And meanwhile…
machines are learning how to be human.
This is what the mind looks like
when it learns to contain itself.
Now break it.
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