private property

Realised during regular cycling or walking excursions in the Friuli Venezia Gulia region of Italy, Private Property focuses on the landscape, its expanses and its contrasts, their rhythms punctuated by the natural or artificial boundaries that define it. This particular series records the evocative force of a land of extremes, one the poet Pierpaolo Pasolini described as a place of “thunderstorms and primules”. Private Property is a personal, often intimate, exploration of those physical, psychological and emotional connections that, like an intricate web of subtle threads, simultaneously render the location and convey the sense of place in a breath of variations. The immanence of transiency, the uniqueness of each encounter with the subject, whether an open gate or a cat on a roof, permeates each subject and provides the images with a zen –like quality. The vertical composition of the images, with its narrow, sequentially unrelenting, grid of multiple viewpoints highlights contrasting or opposing elements whether void and crammed areas/spaces, or internal and external environments, the boundaries between interiors and exteriors in a dynamic interplay. A claustrophobic continuum that offers viewers no solution or escape. Though it provides an ample perspective, the landscape format with its dual perspective is no less disconcerting and displacing. Integral to both formats, colour is used to subvert expectations and reinforce the dialogue between alternating opposites both as a dense, quasi-solid physical component and as a generator of bright, ethereal atmospheres. Private Property is a lost land that responds to memory and longings.