Walk through Palma’s old town and you might miss it. A narrow gap between weathered stone facades leads toward Carrer de l’Almudaina. But slow down. Look through the wide portal of Ca n’Oleo, and something stops you in your tracks. Beyond the shadowy entrance, the courtyard opens into a flood of light. Right in the center sits a sculpture glowing in an electric shade of grass green: Posidònia by Juan Carlos Nadal. Visitors who weren’t even looking for art find themselves drawn in anyway. They…
Clara Carvajal: Ways of Fixing Time
Photography and geology share a strange quality. Both capture what has been. A rock bears within it the layers of millions of years, each layer a silent record of pressure, heat, and movement. A photograph does something similar. It freezes a moment, makes it permanent, saves it from oblivion. And yet both lie in their own way. The rock conceals what happened between the layers. The photograph chooses what to show—and what not to. It is precisely within this tension between preservation and…







