birth of the project
Códigos
Diamante
For over ten years I have observed a phenomenon on Mexican beaches that initially struck me during my walks on those beaches, and in the last 5 years as a photographer and scientist.
The phenomenon that I refer to, is the appearance of images in the sand, after the ocean current rises and falls, leaving some characteristic traces and geometric patterns difficult to describe.
These geometric sand patterns are of unparalleled beauty and originally, because of their unique natural origin I incorporated them into my photographic portfolio along with other organic images that I called The Hand of God, due to the fact that no human actively participates in its formation.
What are the
Códigos
Diamantes?
I named the Diamond Codes a series of patterns I have observed that appear as footprints in the sand after the ocean advances and retracts.
These figures have a fractal aspect, structures whose common characteristic is that their identity is constructed by the repetition or iteration of a given process, regardless of how we observe it or what part of the set we take; there is a similarity between its aspects.
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triangular Figures
Multiple units of isosceles triangles, consisting of a vertex from where two similar sides are detached, form these figures. There are a great variety of these triangles, some are perfect in their geometry and others have deformations in their sides that make them appear as forms with domes.
FORMACIÓN
Each triangle is formed when the tide recedes after having advanced on the sand. Both lateral sides of the triangle are created two lanes where the ocean water circulates and limit the area of the triangle.
Measurements
The length of these triangles measure from approximately 5-10 centimeters, up to practically one meter in length. They have a depth on their outer side that I have measured from 1 to 2 millimeters.
Unique and unrepeatable
The figures once erased by the sea are not repeated and if in that precise place other figures are formed they are totally different from the previous ones, making these Diamond Codes unique and unrepeatable. This creates a very difficult challenge for the photographer to document these images of such a short life span.
Geography
Up until now, I have been able to find these types of sand patterns similar to what I call Diamond Codes in the Punta Diamante region of Acapulco, in the State of Guerrero in Mexico, in four beaches across the world, where prestigious photographers specialized in nature, have documented and published their observations.
Symbolisms
This project evolved in a multidisciplinary approach = at the beginning it was focused on a visual and photographic aspect, later a scientific (oceanographic and geophysical) focus, and finally esoteric and spiritual, culminating in the synchronicity of all these characteristics.
Thinking about these figures that are created and disappear fleetingly in an endless process that is repeated over and over ...
“There is something unsettling in Ricardo Asch’s photographs. A desire, I would say, an endeavor in search of keys to dialogue with the universe, since it is nothing more than the representation of certain phenomena of the ‘outside’ world, the enigmatic waves that enter the beach and then return to the infinite sea, but it would be an approach, I imagine that for the purpose of decoding, to which in its return to the infinite sea those waters reflect again and again, according to a circular logic perhaps, this is without beginning or end”
