honorable mention
Alma Bibolotti italy
title
Liquid entropy (The floating world)
Entropy by definition is the degree of randomness or disorder in the matter. Liquid entropy is the result of what water elicits to me both visually and subliminally. As real as water is, it creates the most abstract scenes with its shapes dancing and vanishing in a very short lapse of time. With its web of undulations, patterns of ripples and waves, water offers conceptual scenes which are impermanent to the observer, a fluid rhythm that never stops, unnoticed, rather than undetectable.
My emotional relationship with this “floating world” is characterised by a sort of rarefaction and nostalgia, as in a dream where the surface becomes a flow shaping curves in a sort of blue and green dance. I have tried to get hold of these dancing forms mostly in mountain lakes and reveal them, composing different angles and perspective visions in diptychs.
In my post-production setting, I join two images to create an interplay between the near and the far, the intimate and the infinite but also to emphasise the experience of unforeseen points of view and perspectives. They balance around a slim white line but patterns, lines, and colours recur in the composition. As a result, borders between reality and abstraction disappear and open a new horizon.
Photography plays a main role in my life: I don’t look for beauty but shadows and lights are a mean to shape my own reality. Taking pictures is an inner journey, my way to deal with my deepest emotions. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature in all its expressions, on my relationship with landscape and the natural world and in my images, I aim to render what I feel while shooting, rather than what I witness. The outer space gives voice to my 'inner gaze'.
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entry description
The diptychs presented here are part of an ongoing project based on nature and offer a glimpse into my exploration of the water ‘forms’ as a subject. Water fascinates me not only for its overwhelming allure, encompassing a range of emotions, for its ultimate significance since it is the liquid of life but most of all, for its visual complexity.Entropy by definition is the degree of randomness or disorder in the matter. Liquid entropy is the result of what water elicits to me both visually and subliminally. As real as water is, it creates the most abstract scenes with its shapes dancing and vanishing in a very short lapse of time. With its web of undulations, patterns of ripples and waves, water offers conceptual scenes which are impermanent to the observer, a fluid rhythm that never stops, unnoticed, rather than undetectable.
My emotional relationship with this “floating world” is characterised by a sort of rarefaction and nostalgia, as in a dream where the surface becomes a flow shaping curves in a sort of blue and green dance. I have tried to get hold of these dancing forms mostly in mountain lakes and reveal them, composing different angles and perspective visions in diptychs.
In my post-production setting, I join two images to create an interplay between the near and the far, the intimate and the infinite but also to emphasise the experience of unforeseen points of view and perspectives. They balance around a slim white line but patterns, lines, and colours recur in the composition. As a result, borders between reality and abstraction disappear and open a new horizon.
about the photographer
I was born in Bari where I graduated in Foreign languages and literature. I moved to France where I lived and worked for 6 years, between Paris and Nice.Photography plays a main role in my life: I don’t look for beauty but shadows and lights are a mean to shape my own reality. Taking pictures is an inner journey, my way to deal with my deepest emotions. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature in all its expressions, on my relationship with landscape and the natural world and in my images, I aim to render what I feel while shooting, rather than what I witness. The outer space gives voice to my 'inner gaze'.
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