El Sur

The title, El Sur, is taken from the film made by Victor Erice. This stunning film is based on the idea of dreaming of a place but never visiting it – and how the culture can travel by word of mouth. Within this paradox, we are led to believe magical things easily, as if being children once again. In a landscape that does not exist except in imagination anything can happen. I’m taken by the idea of traveling through music rather than in the physical sense, and all the imaginings that comes with that – the colours, feelings and tastes that one ‘sees’ when listening to a piece of music.