“Amygdala Syndrome” is a photographic series that explores the confusion between reality and the perception of reality.

The amygdala is a region of the brain known as the primitive brain that processes sensory input and produces an almost instinctive physical reaction that prepares us from a threat.
This part of the brain isn’t able to distinguish real threatening events from imagined ones. For example, if we imagine that the airplane might fall our body will respond to this as a real threat, or when we catch a fright from a harmless rope that at a first glance seemed like a snake.
Each image of the series misleads our perception: a cliff that looks like an elephant or a landscape that is actually a painted scenario. 

The photographs play with this effect and camouflage the real with its representation.