This research - called Early Blue - is born from a reflection which in turn is the fruit of a necessity: to re-establish a deep connection with the places in which we live. If you look at anything for a long time and repeatedly, it will reveal aspects that a quick glance is not able to grasp. Maintaining the same pattern every day helps create a uniform space where it becomes easier to welcome differences; it’s a concept that always applies, from the sea to the mountains, from the wall in front of the house to a cherry tree.
This image comes from a series made on almost a daily basis, from June to October, always from the same point – the pier of Lido di Camaiore (LU) – always a few moments before the sunrise.
If we focus our attention on environments that are little, or not at all, man-made, we will find fewer distractions and it will be possible to still feel all the strength that the world around us has.
The title of the image (date, time, and the angle of the sun based on the line of the horizon) refer to the time we know; it represents our time only because we are able to measure it.
On the other hand, the time of the myth, can’t be measured and it often shows unusual things: in this case, all that remains in front of us is that which we are able to see, but within the frame, there’s also the time of the origins and the time we are moving towards.
Therefore, the horizon’s like line doesn’t divide the image in half, there’s a little more sea than sky. Our ambitions aim high, but our world remains the one beneath; knowing how to swim - and not to fly - is a worthy reminder.
Anthropologist Ernesto de Martino originated the term ‘territorial anxiety’ to express not only the suffering of those who were taken away from their land, but also the inability of people to settle in, to connect to a place.
The spaces we inhabit have gone from being witnesses of a mythical archetype, therefore connected with eternity, to represent a space that will certainly be modified in just a short time, symbolizing the ephemeral.
Those who stop in front of the sea know that the depth of what they see reflects the depth of the universe.
All the images are printed in edition of 5, plus 2 artist's prints.
