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TIMELESSNESS

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Hidden but in the sunlight - Cologne (2019) Timelessness is what we achieve once we reject the concept of linearity of time. "Becoming" is thought while "Being" is the only thing we can cling to. In Being we find the potential of all possible transformations, past and future. One can only love what is, in the present form, in all its past or future representations. Memory helps us to understand reality beyond Becoming. But memory can also be very unreliable, because it is subject to the conditioning of emotions. In fact, we like to remember only what we want to remember and we always remember it in the way we prefer. If we could read the photographs with the awareness of timelessness, perhaps these could help us better understand the deception of Becoming. Facing what has been, we have two possibilities: to create a narrative that supports our emotional impetus, or to see what it has been for what it is, without judging it. It is never truly lost. It never really pa

SOPHISTICATED PLEASURES

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Strip of land - Comacchio (2019) Each phase of the photographic process holds a different and always renewed pleasure. When I am out doing street photography, landscaping, or whatever, I totally dedicate myself to recording the multiple aspects of Manifestation, diving into the mission with my mind and heart, without any prejudice. The pleasure is right there, in observing the world without rules, without brakes, with the utmost respect for every living and wonderful thing. In the subsequent processing phase, I do everything very instinctively. Also in this case I try not to be influenced by states of tension or who knows what expectations. The chromatic choice is something that happens almost automatically and only very rarely do I go back to my initial decisions. Finally, there is the selection and presentation phase, which can happen through a simple post like this one here. The pleasure lies in returning for the third time to read an image, to rediscover the sensation that prompted

MANNEQUINS: SOME READINGS

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Mannequin # 04731 - Perugia Taking pictures of dummies to discover their semantic power, their metaphorical meaning. Us and Them. What are the differences? Certainly, they let themselves be photographed. They are not shy. They do not react to the camera's hypnotic force. They are exceptional, impassive models of an almost alien nobility. Is it them who resemble us, or is it us who wish to look like them? Dreaming of artificial intelligences and cyborgs, in a future that is now increasingly less sci-fi and more available, mannequins remind us of these glorious in-animated creatures, which means "without a soul". Perfect, modeled, programmed creatures. Again, who looks like who? And then, here is the hand that dresses them, that positions them, that shows them. In its preparation, we can grasp the meaning of its existence infused by the creator. It is a full-fledged replicant, mirror of our induced needs, fetish of the Narcissus God that contemporary society unknowingly ado

UNSTABLE STATES OF PRESENCE

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A metal staircase - Ancona (2019) Usually, our vital energy is exhausted with the practice of indiscriminate and conscious observation. Physical and mental fatigue consumes the state of presence and thus we lose our visual potentiality. It is more than normal, in a street-photography session, to alternate periods of great visual potential with moments of indifference. When the vital energy is strong, Manifestation, and with it, the potential of the photographable, emerges effortlessly in all its surprising liveliness. Recognizing these changes in presence is something to meditate on.