Amsterdam is not treated here as a city to be documented, but as a place to be absorbed, interpreted, and reimagined. In this series, Rebeca Elmúdesi uses wooden planks salvaged from the city streets as both surface and subject: materials already marked by time, use, and passage. They become a way of working through her experience of Amsterdam as someone arriving from elsewhere, where even the most ordinary details carry emotional weight.

The works draw on the city's architecture, water, and shifting atmosphere to build surreal scenes shaped by memory, observation, and personal experience. Buildings appear less as fixed structures than as carriers of feeling and association. Water, a constant presence in the city, runs through the series as both a visual and conceptual thread: reflective, unstable, and responsive to its surroundings.

Rather than presenting Amsterdam as it is, the series approaches it as it is felt. Each work holds a fragment of a lived encounter—love, anxiety, wonder, euphoria—translated into a visual language that is at once personal and open-ended. The result is not a portrait of the city, but a subjective landscape shaped by belonging, displacement, and the act of looking.