Pola Vida is a play on the Costa Rican philosophy of Pura Vida (Pure Life), reimagined through the lens of a vanishing medium. Shot entirely on discontinued, expired Polaroid film, the series documents the physical interaction between the landscape and the photographic emulsion.

The visual "wear and tear" within the frames is a direct result of the local climate; the intense heat and humidity of Costa Rica have chemically altered the film in real-time. This environmental degradation creates a literal imprint of the place upon the image itself. The project serves as an exploration of impermanence, where the fragility of the expired film mirrors the fleeting nature of the tropical environment, resulting in singular, non-reproducible relics of a specific time and atmosphere.