Claudio Mortensen Studio

“…from the time of the birth, or but from the instant of conception in a certain month lost in history, or further away, from that timeless moment in which beings are only hypotheses not formulated in universal chaos.” Carlos Drummond de Andrade

The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. Eclesiastes

Prophecies tell the history of a very turbulent moment of my life, during which every single aspect of it was utterly obliterated, to the point that I could not trace a continuity from past to present. The project ended up being a cathartic experience and my MFA thesis.