TWO EMAILS
S,
I have never heard of Luigi Ghirri. I just looked him up. I like what I see so far.
I have this idea where I want to try and reach the horizon. But, that's an impossible act b/c the horizon is always the farthest visible distance away from you. So, to try and reach it is a futile effort. But I like that idea of the impossible. And I like the idea that the horizon is right at the edge of what can and cannot be seen.
But there is another thing too. You can reach the horizon. Through someone else's eyes. So, by displacing yourself into someone else's subjectivity, you can reach this point. I like that idea too. It brings into play multiple vantage points.
For me, I would continually try and reach what cannot be reached. But for someone else, I would have reached it and disappeared beyond it.
-d
On Jan 2, 2008 11:14 AM, sarasidhe wrote:
Dear David,
thank you for your links, I think that your works are really intense
and have something magic .
I grew up in a very foggy place in the north of Italy and I've always
had a kind of fascination for what I can't see. I'm working about a
kind of disappearence on physical and performative way too. I'm
working with photography about the concept of watching what is
invisible, taking photograps about strange "watchers", sitting on a
chair in a field or in a wide landscape watching through fog or
through dark what they can't see. Now I'm in Zurigh and I've not my
works with me, but I'll send you something when I'll be back in Milan.
Your work about sky reminds me a piece by Luigi Ghirri called "∞
infinito", probably you already know it. Ghirri was for me the most
innovative italian photographer of the last 30years. He was unlucky
and he never had success during his life; his work has been revalued
after his death. This work seems at first appearence really simple but
while you discover it you realize that has somethig genial, that
speaks about our impossibility of seeing and watching the world. He
took one photograph to the sky everyday for a year, in the same place
and position, at the same hour. Watching these images you understand
in a really light and pure way how is impossible for everybody have
something to be sure of. It's the same sky, but it's above us always
different.
Maybe you're asking yourself why I'm writing you; I'm doing this
recherce for my work and I will do a discussion in an art school. I'd
like to do this discussion in a different way, I'd like to speak about
real experiences, to tell different tales and dialogues, to report
letters. This argument is for its own nature vague and undetermined, I
think that it can live and express itself in a very complete way
through actions (like your walking or my watching). I think that when
one thing is going to disappear that is the perfect moment in which it
reveales itself in the most communicative way.
I hope I didn't bored you too much!
Thank you for your help,
Sara
I have never heard of Luigi Ghirri. I just looked him up. I like what I see so far.
I have this idea where I want to try and reach the horizon. But, that's an impossible act b/c the horizon is always the farthest visible distance away from you. So, to try and reach it is a futile effort. But I like that idea of the impossible. And I like the idea that the horizon is right at the edge of what can and cannot be seen.
But there is another thing too. You can reach the horizon. Through someone else's eyes. So, by displacing yourself into someone else's subjectivity, you can reach this point. I like that idea too. It brings into play multiple vantage points.
For me, I would continually try and reach what cannot be reached. But for someone else, I would have reached it and disappeared beyond it.
-d
On Jan 2, 2008 11:14 AM, sarasidhe wrote:
Dear David,
thank you for your links, I think that your works are really intense
and have something magic .
I grew up in a very foggy place in the north of Italy and I've always
had a kind of fascination for what I can't see. I'm working about a
kind of disappearence on physical and performative way too. I'm
working with photography about the concept of watching what is
invisible, taking photograps about strange "watchers", sitting on a
chair in a field or in a wide landscape watching through fog or
through dark what they can't see. Now I'm in Zurigh and I've not my
works with me, but I'll send you something when I'll be back in Milan.
Your work about sky reminds me a piece by Luigi Ghirri called "∞
infinito", probably you already know it. Ghirri was for me the most
innovative italian photographer of the last 30years. He was unlucky
and he never had success during his life; his work has been revalued
after his death. This work seems at first appearence really simple but
while you discover it you realize that has somethig genial, that
speaks about our impossibility of seeing and watching the world. He
took one photograph to the sky everyday for a year, in the same place
and position, at the same hour. Watching these images you understand
in a really light and pure way how is impossible for everybody have
something to be sure of. It's the same sky, but it's above us always
different.
Maybe you're asking yourself why I'm writing you; I'm doing this
recherce for my work and I will do a discussion in an art school. I'd
like to do this discussion in a different way, I'd like to speak about
real experiences, to tell different tales and dialogues, to report
letters. This argument is for its own nature vague and undetermined, I
think that it can live and express itself in a very complete way
through actions (like your walking or my watching). I think that when
one thing is going to disappear that is the perfect moment in which it
reveales itself in the most communicative way.
I hope I didn't bored you too much!
Thank you for your help,
Sara