In this project, I explore the concept of aesthetic atavism: the way in which old forms, functions, and meanings reappear within contemporary objects. The word atavism comes from evolutionary biology and genetics, referring to the return of an ancestral trait that seemed to have disappeared for generations. A classic example is a human born with a rudimentary tail, a horse with three toes like its ancestor Miohippus some 40 million years ago, or a cactus that suddenly develops leaves. All of these are traces of an evolutionary past that unexpectedly resurface.

In my photography, I translate this biological principle into an aesthetic and material context. I focus my camera on objects that, through wear, weathering, or neglect, lose their contemporary layer of time and begin to radiate something primal, archaic, or ancestral. These are everyday things that, through damage or decay, seem to fall back into an earlier state, as if their form remembers where it once came from.

These images do not express nostalgia but a visual recoil: a moment in which the object sheds its modern identity and an older, more elemental beauty emerges. In the cracks, fractures, rust, fraying edges, and breaks, an aesthetic appears that was never designed but reappears, much like genetic atavism.

My work searches for that precise moment when the ordinary becomes archaic, when the banal gains something timeless, and when the damaged reveals something essential.