FREEFORM

Details Hunting!

I have been shooting many photos lately. Holidays, landscapes, few people and a dog! Yet, I kind of miss taking my usual pictures. Artsy-abstract-images of unreal momentums. Maybe it is because of the weather that keeps changing like a psycho wheel, maybe is just because I can't find any inspiration here in my ol-lil-medieval-town-where-nathing-ever-happens, the utlimate thing is that those photos aren't appearing! Desperate I decided to go to a friend of mine exhibition. Not a photos, sculptures or painting exhibit btu a handmade objects. Fabric, knitting and every other thing usually I don't really care about. Not usually, I really do not care about those type of works. But I decided to go anyway. Friends are friends. I had my camera in the car and I knew I wouldn't use it. I was wrong! The colors, the fabric, the location (a greenhouse of a local flower shop) made me change my mind! So many details! I even bought some stuff...what's wrong with me???? Ah AH AH ! Anyway...good job!

NATURally ARTistic

But is it really possible that nature doesn't survive in my apartment??? Whatever I get dies after a couple od days. Unbelievable! Plants, flowers and every other green or colored natural piece I put around the place seems not to be at its place. And yes! I have to tell you that it disturbs me a lot going to my parents house and see nature all over the place: ALIVE! Even if a plant dies it suddently comes back to life...this is one of the mystries surrounding my days! Now it's seriously becoming a big challenge! I will get as many plants as possible and compete....will I lose??

Damn! Even their paintings hanging on the wall seem to come to life! If my efforts don't work will I end up putting fake nature in my place??? Please let at least those survive!!!

Stillness and Motion

The power of nature. Water and wind. The lake is amazing when the weather changes. Stillness. Or motion. Lokking at the boats sailing is always inspiring. Looking at the motor vessel makes me want to leave...soon. I am already thinking about my summer vacations! Where to go??? I am guessing LA...still a long time but better be prepared in advance!

Holidays, Martyrs and Weddings and many Small Details

It's funny sometimes to realize that getting used to certain routines, details disappear in the big picture of life! We have a "holiday house" in Cannobio Italy, just couple of miles after the border. My grandfather bought the land on which the house stands long time ago since, obviously, it was a very good deal. My parents (architects like me) and other family members build a magnificent house that faces the lake Maggiore. The town is very nice, now spreading but, the boardwalk, which is the most interesting part of it, like any other town grown on a lakeside is simply amazing! We all developed a routine down there! Wake up, go down in town (since the house is on the hill), buy the numerous newspapers and sit down in a café facing the lake. Walk around and then go either at the beach, or sailing or simply back at home enjoying the big balcony laying down on a longchair reading. Everything I see and saw through the years was always the big picture, noticing yes small details but never really stopped analyzing them. That's what I did this weekend. I knew the history of the town. But I went and learned more. Walking around with my camera I noticed the so many gravestones or whatever you call them spread around the town. There is even one right under my house, on the street that takes you on top of the hill. I didn't really know what happened and why so many. Well, it turns out that, during Second Wotld War the people of Cannobio rose against the nazi and fascist regime...and that means many of them were brutally killed. Yet all of them are remembered through those gravestones. Martyrs of a stupid war that shaped people and places. It was strange reading about the killings of many partisans on the lake boardwalk. Gallows were build to execute many civilians. Now, on the same place, we drink coffees and campari, people enjoy walking, they get married. Past details, memories and present activities. Yet, the past is never forgotten, thanks to those small details you maybe hardly noticed.