Synapse

Behind the work

The first images that introduced me to the language of abstraction were born in Calafuria. A familiar place along the Livornese coast, where I took my first steps in landscape photography and where the sea has always played a central role in shaping my gaze, even before the images themselves.

We often experience places in a fragmented way, passing through them without truly lingering. We are physically present, but our minds are elsewhere. Returning to Calafuria was a conscious act of slowing down: choosing to stop, observe, and grant time to what is usually ignored. I wasn't looking for scenery, but surfaces. Not wide views, but details.

The rock and limestone, sculpted by the continuous action of the sea, reveal a natural palette of subtle nuances, stratifications, traces of erosion, and mineral deposits. With changing light, sometimes grazing, sometimes diffused, sometimes harsher, these surfaces take on different characteristics, almost as if they were different places, while remaining the same. It is time, more than space, that transforms them.

These images stem from the act of returning. Returning multiple times to the same spot, at different moments, to let the subtle variations guide my gaze. Here, abstraction is not a forced act, but a natural consequence of prolonged observation. A way to rediscover a familiar place through what, until then, I had never truly seen.

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The works may be available in different formats, depending on the reference edition. The online configurator allows you to customize the presentation with frames and passe-partouts.

3 sizes available

50 × 70 cm €875,00

70 × 98 cm €1.280,00

100 × 140 cm €2.060,00