Honorable Mention TOKYO-2017 Fine Art / Landscape

suspended landscapes

  • Photographer
    Luca Izzo

A silent scream invades the soul with waves of light. Sometimes images are like that. Any moments in the life of the universe in which converges the cancellation of it, which opens the door to a deeper understanding of what surrounds us. An instant, it does not matter which. It does not matter if it is really a particular moment that becomes fixed crystallized in the annulment of the idea of duality itself that counterposes man to what a good part of the West defines Created. In an instant the fortifications erected by the cultural superstructures collapse and you can feel part of the Whole. Part of the landscape, part of the time against which we struggle. We are rocks and water, sand and air. Invaded by silence we perceive the harmony of all the sounds in the world. Lost in the stillness of that eternal movement. Landscapes suspended in the gap that suddenly opened showing us the universe. They are moments, fractions of a blink of an eye. Particles of time in which, we attempt to prolong the wonder for the contact with dimensions that seem eternal. Pierce the veil that envelops the mystery of existence. Stop the flow in which everything runs. Seek refuge in the images, splinters of eternity. The perpetual motion of the waves also annihilates the tinge of silk, illuminated by new lights and perspectives. What openings, what discoveries await us? In the stillness the motion in the universe is revealed. That makes us transparent shadows on the world stage. Man, the centre of himself. Man who feels enormous. Man... becomes small. An evanescent figurine projected in the silence of a context that does not perceive his centrality. (Sandro Iovine)