Márcia Correia

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Illustration





Red Velvet




2020
Serra da Freita, Aveiro, Portugal Red Velvet emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when Serra da Freita’s remote mountains became my escape from the confinement of the city. In that solitude, the landscape offered more than refuge—it became a site to imagine a world where reality and fiction merge.

Through this series, I sought to reimagine the familiar by amplifying its visual language. The hyper-saturated colors create an artificial and almost hostile environment, a deliberate choice to provoke discomfort and unease. These exaggerated tones reflect my response to the tension between the natural world and human intrusion—what happens when we extract, exploit, and commodify nature.

Red Velvet is not just a reflection of place but an exploration of how we shape and distort it through our perspectives and actions. It’s a visual fiction rooted in the real, inviting the viewer to confront the consequences of our estrangement from the environments we claim to inhabit.
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Digital Photography