Sulle tracce del T-rex
A way of escape from the crisis. An uncertain plastic T-rex let us dream, as a child would do with his toys.
"I don't know much about the way of my future life and even less about time." (Ernesto Guevara, known as Che)
At least at the beginning, this work was inspired by "Into The Wild" directed by Sean Penn. The plot tells about a boy, who leaves the westernized world, mainly based on work and consumption, in order to challenge the nature and himself. Only in the end, he'll realize that people can feel and stay alive just sharing themselves each other.
So, I tried to think and make others think about this subject: the escape from reality in all of its aspects. There is someone who runs away using drugs or exploring a travel dimension, others who escapes through an artistic path or looking for a perfect love. Everybody is running away from an everyday life that often coerces and oppresses us. We are sons of a sick society, which continuously deceive us offering victorious examples grounded on money and approval. The main problem is that just a little part of human beings can enjoy these kind of goods. For others, there will probably be a life marked by privations and frustrations. However, luckily, life has also happy moments; there are love, friends and family (even if it's not always a good thing). Then, indeed, there are also ways of escape.
Putting this outlook to my work, I thought I should come back to a naturalistic photography point of view: I described the landscape that surrounds us, walking away from the town and going back to the wood for breathing; before all, I looked for beauty, supported by my observation ability and looking for solitude. Therefore, I started from an idea of Krisis, conceived as absence and lack of outlooks despite the excess of possibilities.
Then, I decided to disclose my crisis and reveal it, helped also by some of the advices given by the participants of the workshop. The incitement came from a child and his imagination: together, we decided to follow the trail of an unreal T-Rex. It has been a backwards journey, through the child who is in me, finding an unconscious world, crowded with mysterious creatures.
Then, I decided to move my "study" in Milan, my hometown. The T-Rex, second Godzilla, is present, frightfully. Japanese iconography of sixties movies has inspired me in the realization of pictures; in particular, I found really enlightening the movie about Godzilla, where shared fears are expressed with metaphors. That was the time when a huge lizard, hit by radiations, could appear above the sea and destroy a Tokyo made in cardboard. That time, even in a completely different context, seems to be back!
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