ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photograph is part of "The Bookstore Project." It all started on a spring day in 2012, after visiting an old Massachusetts bookstore owned by a friend of mine.
After that visit, I had a dream about a nude woman walking around the space, leafing casually through the volumes, unfazed by nothing, as if living in a parallel universe. I thought that the whole place was a bit melancholy - like an ancient city, an archaeological dig or an undiscovered treasure. The Garden of Eden came to mind, or Alice in Wonderland.
When I took this photograph I was interested in conveying a sense of mystery and purity. I wanted to explore the connections between attraction and knowledge, highlighting the vulnerability of both culture and beauty.
AUTHOR
FLORIN ION FIRIMIŢÃ is a teacher and novelist who traces his interest in art back to his father’s modest amateur photo lab, in Bucharest, Romania, where he was entrusted with mixing chemicals, developing film, and printing black-and-white photos, at the age of six. His interest in drawing and painting started around the same time, under the influence of his mother, an art teacher and a fashion designer.
In 1990, he immigrated to the United States. Today he teaches, paints, exhibits, lectures, and writes art-criticism, essays and short stories.
His fiction, essays and short stories have appeared in France, Great Britain, and in the U.S. in House Beautiful, The Sun and the Hartford Courant. The Art of Leaving a film about Florin’s art and life was released in 2003. The film was the official selection of seven international film festival such as Santa Fe, Durango, New York, Chicago, and also Montreal’s 23rd Festival International du Film Sur L’Art. His first novel, Reliquary, the result of 13 years of writing, is scheduled to be published in 2016.
He divides his time between Connecticut, New York and France.
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