Work in progress
I discovered the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud as a teenager, and it has stayed with me ever since. Every Day, Eternity offers a personal reinterpretation inspired by his poem “Eternity” (1872), in which he presents eternity, from the very first stanza, as “the sea fled away with the sun” — a horizon line that stretches on indefinitely, like time itself.
This series questions our perception of time by challenging the anthropocentric conception of eternity that responds solely to our sensory expectations. Through its landscapes, vegetation, animals, and minerals, nature becomes the narrator of a visual poetry in which the lightness of the present moment merges with our quest for eternity. By placing prisms in front of the lens and modifying filters, I break down light into airy textures and fleeting details, visually conveying how our temporality flies away and frees itself from our reference points.
What if eternity were the gradual reconfiguration of our certainties about the present and our assumptions about the future?
© Isis Ascobereta, ADAGP, Paris, 2026