This project had been in my mind for months. Coming from a documentary background, I was scared of putting myself outside of my comfort zone, using softwares I've never used before, completely changing what I was used to create. But the vision of compositing with pole dancers was so strong in my mind that I felt the need to somehow make it happen.

I've been doing pole dance since I've arrived in Barcelona in 2020 and I've been so amazed by the influence it’s had on myself. Starting from being forced to look at myself in the mirror with almost no skin covered, to moving my body in ways that I didn’t know. I’ve spent this time surrounded by women who supported me in a way I had never experienced before. I’ve been confronted not only with my own body, but with that of other women, and witnessed how powerful our bodies can become. How powerful we can become when we support each other.

That's why I began to think that bodies are just bodies. The sexuality we inflict on them - especially the female ones - is given by socially constructed norms. If those did not exist, our bodies would just be bodies, made of skin, bones, fat and all so different.

I wanted to disrupt not only where our bodies usually get to be seen, but also where pole dancers' bodies are supposed to be seen. The wave composition is the idea I had in my mind way before doing the shooting. I sent my models the drawings of the compositions I wanted to make, like that of the wave, among with images of potential shapes they could do on the pole.

However, not everything went as planned. The vortex image for example wasn’t even a concept before the shooting. I spent hours moving the bodies around, looking for some sort of composition that would inspire me. Somehow I created a circle and I thought what the fuck is this but also I love it? So then I added just one body in the centre - that of the boy who is in the centre now too - and it looked like a clock. I loved it at first but I couldn't find a connection with the wave nor what I had in mind before. Spent other hours moving the bodies until I created a vortex and I then realised that here we go, this makes sense now. And that's only thanks to the people who participated in this project, who have inspired me to create this composition.

The Carousel is the second episode of this series. I was walking around a park in my neighbourhood Poblenou (Barcelona) and I came across this circular structure. With the light coming from above, I immediately imagined the poles hanging from the structure creating a sort of UFO image. After I started compositing it, I realised that I was going towards a rather different image - that of a carousel. Because that was giving me the idea of a peaceful, quiet dance for and among women. I started seeing it much more as an intimate dance, a ritual, a ceremony. It gives me the idea that they are dancing in a safe space, with each bringing something to the whole.