“An aerial photo, an immediate feeling of naturalness, of amazing experience. Seeing from a bird’s perspective is not consistent with seeing from the ground. It took you quite some time to be able to condense information from such a large scale of vision and when you fly and take photographs, shadows lift objects from the ground, allowing the viewer to be drawn into the photograph as if going beyond the real to the more real. ” Iceland is an elemental place, a primordial world on the morning of Creation, a place where the very bones of the earth are manifest. Raw, starkly beautiful, otherworldly, yet also unmistakably terrestrial, it’s a dizzying, breathtaking escape into an earth untouched by man. In the introduction to his hardcover book, Iceland: Visions of Earth (Sassi, 2017), Italy’s Massimo Lupidi says, “Suddenly what was far away becomes close, what was impossible becomes possible, what was a dream becomes reality.”The photographic imagination is also filtered through painting and its creative processes. Terms such as fields, spatiality, bird’s-eye view, aerial view, geometric perspective, colour blends, shades, shadows, colour ratio, evocative, abstract art, all take on meaning. If we look down on Iceland from on high, we can relish the natural masterpieces crafted by the Greatest Artist.
ICELAND , tra cielo e terra
