Photomanipulation: Honorable Mention 2024 (amateur)
''Intrusione e Conoscenza v.I, n.43 ''Deep Sleep'' by Lorenzo Ballin (Italy)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
‘’Intrusion and Knowledge v.I’’ wants to observe closer the reason and the consequence of the metamorphosis of identity. It wants to reflect on that intimate change of the bird that, grasping its own inner voice and touching its deep dreams, detaches itself from the nest and, while remaining faithful to its roots, gets lost in the dark forest to experience what it could not see, its opposite, its shadow, so that it can intercept and recognize what it identifies as light.
The intrusion of its opposite, furrowing the ground with its own imprint, makes the bird aware of its own mask, of its own false appearance. In that same moment, an image is imprinted forever in his existence praising the past that brought him here. The paths formed by the bird's footprints allow him to fulfill the reason why he left the nest, the search for that knowledge that will make him go beyond the boundary, that will allow him to take off his mask, and, with time, go deeper, again.
I started this project in 2020, when I was 20, and ended this year, when I'm 24. I think ''Intrusione e Conoscenza v.I'' (in Italian), totally black and white, is really showing the transformation of my reality and what is my relationship with people, with the outside and inside world, while my inner soul and my feelings constantly change, in search for my own path. I also think the use of black and white leads the interlocutor to reflect more on the colors he carries within, without being influenced by the ones the work ''should'' have.
The image I'm submitting is ''Intrusione e Conoscenza v.I, n.43 ''Deep Sleep''
None of my photography uses artificial intelligence of any kind.
AUTHOR
I was born near Venice in 2000, I began my studies at ‘‘Majorana Corner’’ linguistic high school and still continue my studies at IUAV, with the fashion design course. Despite having learned the craft of making clothes from artisan workshops, I decide to continue with this academic path, continuing to practice my experience on the creation of clothes and clothing accessories.
My training and the enrichment of my thoughts are accompanied by studies in the psychological and philosophical fields, touching, a bit, oriental philosophy. The courses attended vary: Psiche e Corpo, Costellazioni Familiari, Benessere Psicoemotivo, Ipnosi, Arte e la relazione con la psiche, Bio Psicosomatica, Il sogno rivelatore, Filosofia della Voce, Società ed Individuo a confronto. I attended various photography courses and one teaching the usage of the complete Adobe package, specializing in Photoshop and retouching.
My studies, individual and otherwise, aim to shape and combine Photography, Fashion and human essence with a new vision of the body in relationship with the world, and vice versa, as indisputably necessary and indispensable to smooth out the sharp sides of this enigma.
I took part as a Graphic Assistant in ‘’e come per magia...’’ in 2023, an exhibition of photographs between surrealism and metaphysics in Venice and in the sixth edition of Ars In Tempore, under the name of Mija Shunya.
Currently on display at Barone Rosso, Spinea (Venice).
In progress.
(None of the photos feature the use of artificial intelligence of any kind)
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