A night in Venice

"A night in Venice" is a series of photos related to our oniric side of consciousness. We know that the clear side of our real daily life is never enough. When we fall asleep our mind works to give us important and latent answers.

Often love appears in our dreams, and the images we see are not always sharp, but rather blurry.

In these photos it was really important to represent accurately the imagery and to build a narrative sequence capables to evoke emoction and perception typical of a nightmare.

The dream is set in a nocturnal Venice between canals and streets.

In a confused atmosphere, the dream starts with blurry visions of a boat and then of this girl, the protagonist with the observer of this sequence. A fleeting gaze is enough to fall in love. After that, fear comes when we perceive that love is not ephimeral, but consumes us from inside.

It was really important to find how to evoke the hope we meet when we are lost in love without definitive answers.

I use symbols to suggest in the observer feelings and perception like fear, confusion, wait and hope.
For me it was really important also to involve the peculiarity of a nightmare: the incapacity to enter in a direct contact with the ambience. That is for example the doorphone: we see it, we would like to utilise it, maybe it seems we are hearing something, but we are not able to do something incisive and effective.

The dream continues with a continuous reserch around Venice looking for love and hope in the houses' lights and in the blurry moon, which appears only as a strong source of light to respect the fact that nothing must be too clear like in real life.

One of the hardest matter we must struggle in love is the uncertainty and the incapacity of understanding that we haven't any possibility to build something really strong. So, only at the end of the nightmare, just before opening our eyes, we see a sharp image able to represent our confused condition.