"Mare d'inverno" - description of the work
"Winter sea" - description of the work
A few days ago, rearranging the shelves in my office, I noticed a paper wrapper. It was a page of a notebook; a lined sheet of those used in middle schools. Even if I immediately understood what it was, the curiosity was very strong. Once the envelope was unrolled, which contained three strips of black and white photographic negatives, the euphoria and emotion in reviewing those frames was strong. The memories immediately came to mind. The good times of the Pescara photocub. The friends of that time and the love for the image ... for the photo shoot ... almost an orgasm. But of the twelve frames, one was the one that struck me most of the others. There were no friends and goliardic skits. The subject was the sea. The sea, on a bad winter day. It was a picture taken inside a seaside chalet, on the long northern sea of Pescara, near the neighborhood where I lived. A melancholic black and white photo. An almost sinister place; chairs and tables stacked at the corners of the structure. Above the door to the sea, closed by a rusty wire mesh, sunshades tied with a rope to the die-cast concrete beam. And then again, stools, planters and even car seats. But from the door, which seemed to frame, the sea. The sound of the waves on the shoreline. The wind ... the song of the seagulls. An escape route. Yes, an escape route. All that was needed was to find a way to break the metallic texture that held me prisoner in that silent and dark chaos.
"Mare d'inverno" - 2019
acrilyc on plywood