ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Perception of order is the underlying process which make us conceive and understand what we call decoration. That, is what I found deeply striking in Gombrich analysis. A mechanism which is at the root of the entire artistic experience.The notion of beauty, and from there, the notion of ornament are grounded on our pattern-seeking eyes, which love continuity, love regularity, but dislike monotony.
Variatio delectat, as the Latin says. This image is extracted from a photographic project which tries to locate the almost invisible line which separated fuzziness from artful decoration, nature from culture, boredom or confusion from delectation (or distaste).

AUTHOR
Andrea RICCI is Italian, but lives and works in Brussels. He is a journalist and former contributor to La Repubblica; he has a PhD in Communication and Information Sciences, and a strong interest in art history, photojournalism and documentary photography.
His current photographic projects focus on countries in crisis, symbolic urban locations, popular religiosity and the concept of aesthetic order.

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