The REFLECTIONS series experiments with abstractionism in a direction aimed at investigating the optical phenomena of reflection combined with the movement of water, in an abstract graphic key.
By cutting the frame, on the one hand the “choice” of the subject is made, initiating the creative process, the so-called “detachment from the multiplicity of the possible”, on the other hand the subject is circumscribed and “extracted” by isolating it from the context with the result of making the form abstract and at the same time shifting the observer’s interest from the object: the context, the landscape as a whole, to the subject: the individual form.
In these works, the simple or complex marks produced by the reflection of the sun’s rays on the water create natural suminagashi, in which shadow replaces ink in the effects generated by the reflection of light on water.
In the ancient and fascinating Japanese art of ‘floating ink’, the final result is determined by the simultaneous action of the random movement of the water, impossible to control, and the movement the artist gives the ink with his brush.
Similarly in the REFLECTIONS series, framing is used in the search for the perfect movement in which to capture the play of light and shadow at the moment in which the sharp contrasts of black and white create an ephemeral balance of positive and negative.
It is precisely in this instant that through the shot, by isolating a few elements, the image is captured. In it the essential is concentrated: one of the infinite possible, yet unrepeatable REFLECTIONS.
