work
La Forza dell’Immaginazione
| category | Painting |
| subject | Human figure |
| tags | |
| base | 50 cm |
| height | 60 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2020 |
"In your life I wish you at least one blackout on a clear night!"
Mario Rigoni Stern, recalls, with this phrase, a winter night with a sky full of stars. Inspired by this quote, one word in particular caught my attention and inspired me for my project: "blackout".
What is a blackout?
It is a dark, gloomy moment in which the only emotions that prevail are anxiety, fear, distress and loneliness.
The oldest and most powerful fear of man is the fear of the unknown ... this is the blackout, the 'unknown
We generally tend to be afraid of the unknown or unfamiliar, just because we don't understand it and think it's dangerous. We use our five senses to process and assimilate the world around us and not being able to do so frightens us; people are afraid of the dark because they cannot see their surroundings, and if they cannot confirm that there is no danger, they assume that there is a threat lurking.
Throughout history, man has gone through many dark moments, "into the unknown", and all of us in our lives and especially in this period have also had to face, especially mentally, a blackout.
Our daily life has changed radically because of the Covid-19 pandemic and this has brought with it many sorrows and pain, so people as well as being forced into the house, has closed in on itself, not knowing where to find a way out. Many have let themselves be overwhelmed by negative feelings that have hindered the desire to live fully.
But how can you find the strength to react?
It certainly isn't easy. It involves a lot of effort and is a constant struggle with ourselves.
But what is it that allows us to see that starry sky? That light of hope that illuminates and reassures us?
I think it is our mind, our imagination, our fantasy.
I think man has immense capacities and our brain is one of them.
Imagination is an extraordinary tool that we all have and that we can and must train. It allows us to live, travel and above all to look up and see, finally, the sky, it takes the blindfold off our eyes, it frees us. This is what the imagination does.
To allow it to do its work, however, it takes a lot of strength, willpower, because it is not automatic.
My work represents this concept in a very simple way. In the foreground there is a woman who lets herself be overwhelmed by her imagination despite being surrounded by darkness. She is serene.
The technique I decided to use is oil on canvas, which allows me to be very loose in the brush strokes and free, giving a sense of dynamism especially for the abstract representation of ideas that start from the girl's head and disperse randomly, bringing light and joy to the background.
This girl, who represents all of us, struggled and won, driven by her strength of to will, the courage to face her fears by giving vent to her "inner self", going beyond the reality that surrounds her, changing it, fooling it and making it more bearable.
Remembering that it is not the eyes that see but it is our mind that decides how and what to see.
Mario Rigoni Stern, recalls, with this phrase, a winter night with a sky full of stars. Inspired by this quote, one word in particular caught my attention and inspired me for my project: "blackout".
What is a blackout?
It is a dark, gloomy moment in which the only emotions that prevail are anxiety, fear, distress and loneliness.
The oldest and most powerful fear of man is the fear of the unknown ... this is the blackout, the 'unknown
We generally tend to be afraid of the unknown or unfamiliar, just because we don't understand it and think it's dangerous. We use our five senses to process and assimilate the world around us and not being able to do so frightens us; people are afraid of the dark because they cannot see their surroundings, and if they cannot confirm that there is no danger, they assume that there is a threat lurking.
Throughout history, man has gone through many dark moments, "into the unknown", and all of us in our lives and especially in this period have also had to face, especially mentally, a blackout.
Our daily life has changed radically because of the Covid-19 pandemic and this has brought with it many sorrows and pain, so people as well as being forced into the house, has closed in on itself, not knowing where to find a way out. Many have let themselves be overwhelmed by negative feelings that have hindered the desire to live fully.
But how can you find the strength to react?
It certainly isn't easy. It involves a lot of effort and is a constant struggle with ourselves.
But what is it that allows us to see that starry sky? That light of hope that illuminates and reassures us?
I think it is our mind, our imagination, our fantasy.
I think man has immense capacities and our brain is one of them.
Imagination is an extraordinary tool that we all have and that we can and must train. It allows us to live, travel and above all to look up and see, finally, the sky, it takes the blindfold off our eyes, it frees us. This is what the imagination does.
To allow it to do its work, however, it takes a lot of strength, willpower, because it is not automatic.
My work represents this concept in a very simple way. In the foreground there is a woman who lets herself be overwhelmed by her imagination despite being surrounded by darkness. She is serene.
The technique I decided to use is oil on canvas, which allows me to be very loose in the brush strokes and free, giving a sense of dynamism especially for the abstract representation of ideas that start from the girl's head and disperse randomly, bringing light and joy to the background.
This girl, who represents all of us, struggled and won, driven by her strength of to will, the courage to face her fears by giving vent to her "inner self", going beyond the reality that surrounds her, changing it, fooling it and making it more bearable.
Remembering that it is not the eyes that see but it is our mind that decides how and what to see.
