photography

CLEAN

Fine Art photography

‘I am reality.
There’s the way it ought to be. And there’s the way it is.’

Sergeant Barnes
Platoon

My world fell apart at the end of 2020.
Perfect storm. Bigger than me.
I just gave up, so to stay in bed forever didn’t sound like a bad idea.

Months later I saw that it actually was,
so the lump I became started to do little by little those things that humans use to do.

Days kept being eternal, though, hit by bizarre dreams and painful memories;
a sort of a punishment insisting on things I thought I could have done better to avoid all that.

After trying unsuccessfully to ignore them, and also to deal with my insomnia,
I decided to face all those annoying thoughts that didn’t let me sleep.
So I set up a corner in my place where to try to calm them down, becoming a kind of a domestic Wailing Wall for a year.
Just a black curtain, the hitting of flashes and me.

Later I got the habit of shooting whenever I felt I needed to, according to my mood.
A process that started defending myself from something, until I realised that I was not under attack.

Yes, there was something around, but it was still, impassive,
and the lesson to learn was that, wether I liked it or not, it had no intention of leaving.

Just in case I didn’t know yet who I was playing with, Life suddenly got serious and showed me its cards.

DREAM #01

I’m trying to keep us afloat in the open sea, because she can’t swim and feels sick.
I finally spot our boat far away, so I decide to move us in that direction.

When we arrive where I thought it should be, I realise that the boat was never there.
Exhausted, drowning, I start to think about giving up.

– I’m cold.