The first thing I saw was a clear light / Lo primero que vi fue una luz diáfana (2022)

HD Color. Sound. 7’47 min

“The first thing I saw was a clear light” is a line from Great House by Nicole Krauss—the very book the woman in the film holds in her hands. What does it mean to read? What is a book, really? And what happens when we push language into the realm of materiality? What would it mean to read or to write underwater? What kind of relationship can reading and writing hold with the tide and the ocean?