The photographs shown here are both an internal and external depiction of landscapes that shape my identity. The physical environment does not appear as a simple backdrop, but as an agent that transforms subjectivity while being, in turn, transformed by the culture that inhabits it, projecting layers of meaning and memory: ruins, paths, petroglyphs, toponyms. These landscapes act as a mirror of the subconscious, both personal and collective. This work is, therefore, intrinsically catalan, although in a deliberately local and personal way. It is anti-"travel photography", which strips the landscape of meaning and reduces it to a mere commodity.

-Joan Antoni

But... why Orri Nivalis? Well, "orri" is a common toponym in the grazing grounds high up in the catalan Pyrenees, and refers to the places where shepherds used to milk livestock and store cheese. It represents an intersection between landscape and human meaning. It's also my pupper's name. As for the "nivalis" bit:

Some additional things:

• You can also find me on tumblr
• Or scrambling up a mountain
• Or working on a volcano
• Or reading wikipedia
• Ah! And I have friends that make great experimental music
• And others that do revolutionary theory and practice at inhabit-able.org