Mindscapes was initially conceived as part of a multi-channel video installation, and was thus presented in its first versions in 2016 and 2017. The intention was to produce a sensory experience of empty space, an abstract emptiness, full of possibilities, territory for the active participation of the subjects mind: like thought, the fish swims this space, defines meaning, plays freely with its limits. In other words, mind itself is immersed in an ocean of ether where all stimuli are perceived and can be transformed.

In the form of video art, contrary to expectations, there was an expansion of the ideas contained in the original installation: in a paradoxical way, the confinement of the fish to the video expanded its concepts and, more than that, deepened its meanings. Without

the other elements of the installation, Mindscapes showed itself to be a metaphorical study of the mind, the fish embodying the sensory, emotional, instinctive drives of being, the oceanic movement of thoughts that produces the entire subjective world.

In this way, nothing that was in the installation was lost. The video emphasized the abstraction of space and the multiplicity of facets deployed by the fish. The sensory crescendo sought in the physical installation benefited from the video immersion, emphasizing forms and sounds. Ether thus went beyond a study, an analogy between the fish´s behavior and the mind, becoming so a rhythmic, kind of musical video-piece, whose tensions and strains may touch a varied multiplicity of individual sensibilities.