Details and Geometries by paolo bongianino

With the Details & Geometries project, I am going to offer works, which, starting from common scenarios, items and situations, emphasize aspects, shapes and colours otherwise ignored, to achieve evocative images, to be used as decorative elements.
The works of this project are not shot by chance: in fact if they are sometime the result of an intuition, of a glance and of a fortuitous event they are also, probably in most cases, the result of the ability to imagine, at the time of observing the scene which will be reproduced, how a detail, a single element or a play of light and shadows, can develop in the work which will be later offered.
Some examples might ease the understanding of the above statement.
A roof of brick tiles covered with snow is for sure a common and anonymous image. The same roof framed obliquely can be offered and seen by the viewer as a graphic work worth to be hung to a wall.
In the same way, bricks worn out by the wind and sea salt, if lighted and framed in an unconventional way, can be conveniently part of this project.
A female figure, from the back, wearing a straw hat, under the summer sun, thanks to the contrasts and to the shadows of the pattern of the hat can be a subject part of this project. The lighting conditions allow to finalize the desired picture, highlighting the mentioned elements in order to get an highly evocative work of a moment of life, of the pleasure of sun and of holiday time.
The rest of a red brick eroded by the sea on a grey sand beach: common people might only notice the contrasting colour of it on the beach sand, while by adequately cutting the image it is possible to obtain, thanks to contrast and shadows, a new subject within the Details and Geometries project.
The green cap of a plastic bottle in the same colour on the back-ground of summer vegetation it is a nameless and meaningless subject, the image cut, combined with lightning set to highlight the top part of the bottle and the cap change the sight perception allowing to shot a decorative work nearly a monochrome.

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