Mexico, From Height to Ground

Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico · Personal study

A trip that begins in the air of Mexico City and settles closer to the ground in Oaxaca, with a road between them that quietly rewrites the scale.

In Mexico City, the days start high. Rooftops and terraces, long streets that pull the eye upward, towers pressed against older facades. Much of the time is spent moving along those lines, watching how plants, paint and concrete stack themselves against the sky. The city feels built in layers, and the camera follows that height, reading it from balconies, stairwells and distant skyline edges.

The road south changes the tempo. The view lifts and drops along the highway, cutting through hills and small towns, trading glass and steel for low houses and open land. It is a narrow kind of in between, part departure and part arrival, where the country starts to feel less vertical and more horizontal.

In Oaxaca, the work settles at ground level. Markets, doorways and courtyards take over from tower blocks. Color moves into plaster, textiles and clay. Light runs along walls and across plazas instead of bouncing off glass. The frames stay close to thresholds and surfaces, to the spaces between stalls, to tables that have already been used and cleared.