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Hietaniemi beach, Helsinki.
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More great news! I'm very happy and flattered to be selected among the finalists in the 2018 Hasselblad Masters Awards under the Street/Urban category. This selected series is part of my Street Metaphysics series.
Please go to the 2018 Hasselblad Masters page to take part to the public vote and give 3 stars to my image series if you like to support it. Thank you very much in advance!
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Celebrating the publishing of my new monograph Street Metaphysics! The regular 7x7 in. version is now available through Amazon. The special high quality 12x12 in. XL-version is available through Blurb.
The book (62 pages) is divided into 4 sections according to the cities where the images where shot in 2016-2017 (New York, Helsinki, Venice and Prague).
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Book of Shadows pages I created. These are not pre-punched so they can be customized for most any Book of Shadows. These pages are on parchment paper 8.5 x 11 size.
this photo dates back to a few decades ago. in my youth I was delighted with shots of this kind as I loved metaphysical painters.
..or should I call it "Sunset #9023984?"
"Terrazza Mascagni" - Leghorn :)
Expired Kodak Gold film, unknown date.
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"That from which is everything that exists and from which it first becomes and into which it is rendered at last, its substance remaining under it, but transforming in qualities, that they say is the element and principle of things that are. …For it is necessary that there be some nature (φύσις), either one or more than one, from which become the other things of the object being saved..." Aristotle. Metaphysics. Originally Thales of Miletus
Mercado do Bolhão, Porto.
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After the nifty-fifty adventures, curved abstracts etc etc I still like returning to hi-key work.......
Gare de Liège-Guillemins, Belgium.
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The University of Saint Andrew is one of the oldest seats of higher education anywhere in the world and I found this location rather interesting. I bet the debates between the students at both of these faculties are intruiging to say the least. It must have been someone with a sense of humour though who decided to sit them right next door to each other.
Attempting to Uqbar on film.
Milan, June 2021.
135 mm lens, Rollei RPX 25 film.
Perspective adjustment and crop in Darktable.
# Immanuel Kant is one of the influential German philosophers of his time. He was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg, which is today's Kaliningrad located in present day Russia.
# He is known for his ideas in the fields of Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics and Logic.
# His 3 major works are : Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft), in 1781 which was his Magnum Opus; Critique of Practical Reason (German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft), in 1788 and Critique of Judgment (German: Kritik der Urteilskraft), in 1790.
# His philosophy on ethics (Kantian ethics) is considered central in Deontology. His major work, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten), in 1785, explained his philosophy on morality.
# He believed himself to be a compromise between the Empricists and Rationalists of his time and thought that human understanding of Metaphyics can be enhanced or bettered through our study of Epistemology, which is the study of the nature of human knowledge.
# Kant's ideas are studied as Kantianism, and include ideas such as the Categorical imperative, Transcendental Idealism, Deontological Morality, Synthetic A Priori, Noumenon, Schema, Sapere Aude, Nebular hypothesis.
# Though not regarded as a Political Theorist, Kant used his ideas to expound some political views like the classical republican theory which was explained in his work Science of Right.
# The Kingdom of Ends is another thought experiment of Kant which he explained in his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. His is a hypothetical kingdom based on his idea of morality taking shape from the Deontologically moralistic idea of the Categorical Imperative.
The town hall of Borgoricco, a small town north of Padua, was designed in the 80s by the architect Aldo Rossi. The dazzling light of a hot afternoon makes the geometric shapes of the building even more distinct, resulting in an almost metaphysical composition.
- Milano Design Week -
Euroluce 2023
My interest has been to show some scenarios I had the privilege to see and wanted to put together some objects, lights and modular structures I liked.
These are examples on how Euroluce showed different ways to use in a parsimonious way the electric light and, since the top keyword has been "Sustainability", I will be sustainable with my non-pro profile and spare up-loads from my yet reduced quota, putting 4 photos in the same diptych, a quatropod (or a quadriptych ?)
My compo is entitled "Addy hasn't the Silver, she has the quick Gold on! " and is dedicated to my dear Friend
Addy Van Rooij aka Adriënne.
No need for presentations, I believe almost all know her for her Art and her long lasting volunteer work as Admin of many groups.
I want to dedicate to Addy this work for celebrating a lil project we have in common and our friendship. May we be brightened and enlightened, cheers and blessings!
In this picture:
- left : a large knitted fabric in gold yarns can be wholly illuminated by just a micro light (the silhouhette is not another fabric but the beautiful shadow formed by the gold lighted by this micro light positioned to the left on a long thin black bar).
- Right: a huge ceiling of golden pepitas that I could fit in a small space but, instead, was supended on top of a very large hall. All the pepitas were illuminated by just low voltage deemed micro lights and able to refract and multiply the overall illumination. Sustainable, yes, because not in gold but, probably, made with just crumpled and tinted aluminum film.
And, among asters (or pepitas, lol) and a golden moon, a very strange mystic jewel, precious as handmade, like a little shrine treasuring some drops...of light... (See details by zooming in)
Finally the round and triangular lamp is a truly genial one: just one little light bulb surrounded by a system of mirrors can multiply the light reflection infinitely, lightening a large area by consuming almost nothing. (Spotted at the Exhibition "The Lights of Tomorrow").
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Gondoliers on the Rio dei Barcaroli, Venice. Long exposure through moving crowd. Part of my Street Metaphysics project.
My interpretation of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (2022), a novel of time travel and metaphysics (i.e., think simulation hypothesis).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Tranquility_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
Taken for the "Smile on Saturday!" theme of 6/10/2023: PORTRAY A BOOK TITLE.
Also posted for the "Flickr Friday" theme of 6/9/2023: BLUE.
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@Nanzen-ji Temple area, Kyoto
CarlZeiss Distagon 35/1.4 ZM on Sony a7R
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The Song of Love (also known as Le chant d'amour or Love Song) is a 1914 painting by Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico. It is one of the most famous works by Chirico and an early example of the surrealist style, though it was painted ten years before the movement was "founded" by André Breton in 1924.
It depicts an outdoor architectural setting similar to other works by Chirico at this time. This time however, the main focus is a small wall on which is mounted a Greek sculpted head and a surgeon's glove. Below it is a green ball. On the horizon is the outline of a locomotive, an image that recurs several times during this period of Chirico's career.
The metaphysical art movement was created by Chirico and Carlo Carrà, who had previously been a futurist. These paintings would depict Italian city squares that are unnaturally void of people. These city squares would often include a grouping of objects that provide a strange juxtaposition. With these driving elements in his paintings, Chirico created a dreamlike reality that was beyond the physical world. Aspects like the strange grouping of object in The Song of Love is what André Breton and the surrealists looked up to when organizing their movement. The actual art movement only lasted the six months Chirico and Carrà worked together, metaphysical art is the movement associated with all of Chirico's work after 1911.
Chirico presents a bust of a classical sculpture, a rubber ball, and a rubber glove on a canvas in between some buildings with a train passing by in a scene that spurs a sense of confusion. The bust could be a representation of Chirico's love of classical art and a disappearing age. Chirico uses the rubber glove as a mold of a hand that implies the void of human presence. The buildings set up a scene that is reminiscent of the cityscapes of Chirico's past.