Photo by lilypenelope

Photo by lilypenelope

Photo by lilypenelope

Photo by lilypenelope

Are You leaving? Are You escaping from Something? From Someone? From Yourself? Or are you running towards Something? Towards Someone? Or towards Yourself? Photo by lilypenelope

Photo by lilypenelope

I first started to shoot the serie "Unvulnerable Grounds" years ago. My goal was not only to recreate an invented-populated landscape but to capture a moment in which a story was written/told. The story of a life that only exist within the frame of the picture (an in my mind that is continuously in search for a new chapter in this fabricated landscape-[s]). An unvulnerable life, an unvulnerable ground.
This part of the serie, subtitled "Walking on History" wants to be a analysis/experimentation with a (litterally) historic ground. We walk in history, everyday: monuments, streets, trees. Time passes, and, as we walk, the past is right a second behind us. The ground we set our feet on is a past fabrication. If our brain is in the present (most of the time!) well, our feet are on a different plan! "Walking on History" tries to challenge or, better, create a parallel world where the only present is the moment we instantly look at the picture. The set for this framed moment of invented landscape is as litteral as it can be: a miniature figure placed on top of different (original) drawings dated from 1837 to1886.

For more photos of the "Unvulnerable Grounds / Walking on History" on Flickr just click HERE
Photos by lilypenelope

These are part of the section "Unvulnerable Grounds: in motion". I just love them!

So, the other day I was really bumped! No energy, no creativity...just too much coffee! Now I am back! I was up late the other night trying to figure out how to put some of my work together. I've started a long time ago a serie called "Unvulnerable Grounds". Then I got stucked. Now I guess, shooting the very last pieces of it (yesterday!) I finally have it all down. Now it is just a matter of laying it all down, printing, adding some text and then who knows... What do you think about it? I will put some images in different posts since the serie is divided in parts ("Stillness", "In Motion" and so on).

I am still playing with my camera, still playing with my figurines, still creating what in a previous serie I called "Unvulnerable Grounds".

This time they are travelling through oceans, ads and who knows!

So, this friend of mine had a brilliant idea. And a brilliant idea should not be shared with the public right away! Still the idea got me really excited and extremely happy. I guess good ideas always make people happy!

As I said I have a really bad flu, but since I got involved in "the idea" I suddently felt better, creative, thoughtful, imaginative, delirious, rythmical, asymmetrical, and completely insane! I feel like all the noises around me transformed themselves into a beautiful sound. Voices became sounds. And I just let the musicscape relax me!

Did I take too many medications?? Ah ah ah

The other day I found this book in a trash can. Do not take me wrong! I do not usually get stuff from trash cans but this ... I couldn't let it there!

It's a french version of "The Godfather", Mario Puzo's awesome book dated 1970 (year of the translation). It's very nice, it's cover is all thorned and it gives the book a sense of maturity! The cover is designed as many pieces of articles from an old newspaper. So, I took it home and today, as I was already playing with my camera and my little figurines, I decided to recreate the scene of a funeral. Mario Puzo's french book's funeral. Amen!

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Today there isn't much to do since I am waiting for my associate to move his ass and start digging the hole for our new building I am playing around with my camera. I decided to put back in action my little figures I bought ages ago and let them create a new scape around the room.
A trip with a fictitious vespa inside an improbable super flat architecture.

How hard it is to relax lately!

You relax one minute and the next you freak out! You wake up in the morning all pumped up and you discover that internet isn't working! You restart the computer and the fax machine gets into a coma! Fix that and...something else cause you a problem that transform your life into a huge inferno! Technology is a beautiful thing...when everything works out perfectly. If that doesn't happen it just drives your nerves into the jammest freeway you have ever taken! But still, technology allows you to create (obviusly when your damn PC works!!!) virtual objects, virtual realities that do not really exist. They exist in a screen in front of your tired face!!! But they are there. And from your chair your can imagine yourself laying down in a virtual beach locatd somewhere in the technological world!