Fuji Crystal DP II Photo Paper Mounted on Wood

Argumentum Ornithologicum II uses the figure of a human–bird hybrid moving through abandoned, arid terrains to explore instability, belief, and the limits of representation. The figure never settles into a fixed identity, instead appearing as a fleeting presence that blurs into its surroundings. It operates less as a character than as a proposition, testing how meaning and visibility function when form remains unresolved and perception itself is unreliable. Drawing from surreal traditions of hybrid figures and invoking Borges’ meditation on proof and faith, the work positions each image as an open question rather than a conclusion. Set within landscapes shaped by projection, fiction, and abandonment in Almeria, Spain, the photographs hold tension between emergence and disappearance. What persists is not narrative closure, but a fragile state of becoming, where identity remains provisional and the image resists certainty.