Poised in stillness
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Poised in stillness
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Mixed Media / Interdisciplinary
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17" H x 17" W x 0.2" D x 0.2 lbs
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The silence of the soul is a state of total receptivity, a condition of deep listening that precedes any form of authentic knowledge. “La pietra che respira è quella che ha conosciuto il silenzio dell’anima” becomes both metaphor and reconciliation of matter that has transcended its inert condition, through a spiritual metamorphosis and thanks to an encounter with contemplative silence. This transformative process represents the capacity to infuse life and meaning even into what appears motionless, through the power of the poetic gaze. In this work titled: “Poised in stillness” I explore the duality of human existence through the juxtaposition of contrasting  elements. The small female figure in a white dress, suspended between heaven and earth, almost anchored to the curved surface of a river stone, represents the soul balanced between materiality and transcendence. The divided stone, half illuminated, half in shadow, evokes the dichotomous nature of human consciousness: the conscious and unconscious, the manifest and the hidden. Finally, the color of the background is an oneiric limbo, a psychic space where the boundaries between reality  and imagination dissolve, while the lines crossing the composition represent humanity's rational attempts to map and contain all that is inherently fluid and ineffable: the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual experience. The white dress itself, moving in the wind, symbolizes both the vulnerability and strength of the human condition, our capacity to oscillate harmoniously on the edge of the abyss, until reaching gentleness and understanding even in uncertainty.

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Printed by the author with Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 on FineArt Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm paper, manual interventions with pencil and acrylic colors.

Year Created
2025
Location
Italia
Colors
BlackLight Green
Materials & Tools
AcrylicFineArt Print
Search Terms
balancestonewomandressgreenshadowlinescirclesurrealgeometry
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Luigi Maria Verde
Reggio Emilia, RE, Italia
My artistic practice consciously moves in an area of ​​undecidability, inhabiting that liminal space where photography, drawing, painting and writing converge in an uninterrupted dialogue. I do not consider this hybrid approach as a simple sum of techniques, but as the affirmation of a poetics that recognizes its generative core in the tension between different languages. Although my works present manual interventions, geometric signs and material stratifications, I consider them fundamentally post-photographs as they maintain a profound connection with the indexical nature of the photographic medium. This media ambiguity is not indecision, but an active semantic strategy. I am particularly interested in what Jacques Rancière defines as athoughtful image, an entity that does not simply illustrate a pre-existing thought, but constitutes a magnetic field charged with unresolved tensions, resistant to univocal meanings. The work thus becomes a space of perpetual oscillation between apparently opposite polarities: technological automatism and manual gesture, documentation and creation, material presence and conceptual abstraction. My creative process reflects this threshold condition: photographic elements are deconstructed and recontextualized, but never completely denied; pictorial interventions assert their materiality without erasing the underlying photographic trace; geometric signs impose a visual order that dialogues with the organic complexity of the captured image; words insinuate themselves between the visual layers, not to explain them but to amplify their ambiguity. This hybrid practice mirrors our contemporary reality, culturally and technologically fragmented, where images, texts and data constantly mix. I am not interested in resolving this ambiguity, but in consciously inhabiting it in a contemporary landscape, where distinctions between artistic disciplines become increasingly porous.
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