Series - FotoSlovo 2024 - Category « Still Life »

This project takes source from my own life experience.

The images are created by composing photographs of the scars on my body due to as many surgeries and photographs of places from my past, a dreamlike journey back in time remembering the events and places that have made me who I am.

All the pictures, both those of the scars and those of the landscapes, are mine, carefully choosing each landscape image to join it to a specific scar.

The photographs merge to create a new reality where the pain fades away leaving space for a new ethereal and evocative image becoming a polyphonic project that extends and involves other people with a similar path to mine.

The poet Rumi said that ‘the wound is the place where light enters’.

It is a similar approach to Kintsugi, the Japanese restoration technique of repairing shattered ceramics by embellishing them with gold dusting. The breaks and repairs are part of the object’s history and are enhanced rather than hidden. Its fragility is revealed and at the same time its strength to resist.