For various years now I’ve been working a series of B/W mural photographs of different
buildings in Havana, and thread drawings that are supposed to complete them. Departing
from some particular spots of the prints, these isometric drawings will complete the
buildings structure, the metal towers and constructions with the intention to deal with the
pair imagination/ reality, and also with sculpture, architecture and urban design.

Thesense of these photographic installations would be the reflection about the limits of the
Real and the Fictitious: in one hand the fragility and illusion of thread drawing, in the
other, the shocking reality of these ghost buildings.

All the buildings appearing in the pictures do no longer exist. I photographed many of
them several years ago, some other very recently, but each of them had collapsed or were
throw down in the last two years.

Carlos Garaicoa, 2005.