Colpo di Fulmine is an intimate serie images in which themes such as vulnerability, darkness, blasphemy, passion and comfort are combined in a thematic and symbolic way. The subject can be obscure or severe but touches a sincere emotion or sentiment.
An unexpected but decisive moment of absolute beauty, surprisingly powerful and intense in emotion. Intertwined and inseparable.
The base of the work is often a cyanotypeprint which will be bleached, toned and reprinted. The prints cannot only be defined as photographic it is a combination of alanloge printing techniques, combined with acrylic paint, charcoal and Indian ink.
Darkness
Luminosity awaits me as I travel through the darkness.
Cyanotype print 30 x 40 cm
” One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.” ( George Leigh Mallory )
Cyanotype blue 47 x 31 cm
The strength in numbers phenomenon comes in all shapes and forms. Strengthening the individual in decisiveness.
Cyanotype bleached 25 x 45 cm
The vulnerability of the heart opens one’s mind.
Cyanotype toned brown 30 x 20 cm
“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood.” The person you truely are can be blackened by the people who surround you.
Cyanotype print 40 x 40 cm
The moon refllects the person you are when you are alone and no one is around. The soul will be lit by the people you embrace.
Cyanotype print 40 x 40 cm
Purity
The silence of resurrection and rebirth.
Cyanotype 20 x 30 cm
A portrait of the unborn, the centre of Creation.
Cyanotype 20 x 30 cm
A sadness falls upon me while I ponder on what has been.
Cyanotype black 30 x 45 cm
I am not a religious man.
Cyanotype 27 x 35 cm
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful.
Cyanotype deep brown 40 x 40 cm
A feeling of uncertainty leaves me restless.
Cyanotype 33 42 cm
Rawness
The vigor and strength of spirit.
Cyanotype red brown 20 x 30 cm
Contemplate
I admire the simple things and contemplate complicated matters open hearted.
Cyanotype print, double exposed 47 x 47 cm
A dead bird marks a new beginning and symbolizes a metaphorical death as opposed to a physical death.
Cyanotype blue 40 x 40 cm
Broken wings.
Emotionally scarred, damaged beyond the point of repair.
Cyanotype blue 40 x 40 cm
All the beauty that’s been lost before, wants to find us again.
Cyanotype red brown 20 x 30 cm
Look further and beyond and discover.
Cyanotype brown 32 x 47 cm
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