"I am Darrel Standing. Very soon they will come to get me to hang me. In the meantime, in these pages I will express my opinion by writing about different times and places."
from the incipit of The Tramp of the Stars by Jack London
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These considerations arose while I was reading a book on art collecting (the catalog of the exhibition The Pizzi collection, a seventeenth-century picture gallery - FMR editore) and while I was reading a sort of examination on the psychology of the collector, I asked myself: but then, is photography also in a certain sense a form of collecting? And...
Rummaging through the old photos buried in the memories of the hard disks, this image of the small station in my town, Collecchio, came back into my hands, with the flowers and the warm shades of the late afternoon. Now that spring is upon us again, this photo made me go back in time, to the scents and colors of...
Myths tell us that in a distant past they were "one", then something or someone divided us, created a deep fracture in ourselves, tearing apart our unity. Woman and man were created, divided, eternally searching for the lost unity, and then in succession, in a cascade, an infinite series of divisions and fractures, starting with that between spirit...
We all have "dark sides", black thoughts, anxieties and unknown inner territories to explore, we must evoke them, know them, pull them out, to be able to dominate them and not simply be guided along illusory paths that lead only to perennial dissatisfaction.
It is not painful to be without what you have ceased to crave.
"Without "chaos" there is no knowledge. Without frequent renunciation of reason there is no progress."
A semi-deserted city, unusual for a Saturday afternoon. It seems like the middle of the night, yet it is only Saturday afternoon, in the historic center of a surreal Parma. A grandiose monument, raised to the memory of an equally grandiose fellow citizen, relegated to a secluded corner of the city. The few souls that appear on the horizon seem...
The vampire draws strength from the fact that no one wants to believe in his existence.
A gallery of immersive images that can be navigated at 360 ° where I illustrate some of the abandoned places I have visited and photographed with this compelling and captivating technique.
A small crystal of probable Barite (size about 4 mm) stands out against a background of Calcite crystals. Sample found in the clayey badlands of Rubbiano, near Fornovo Taro. Nature always surprises, even hiding its treasures inside the rocks., In the deep darkness of the bowels of Mother Earth.
The flowers in the gardens are sad, like the animals in the zoo, they put showing oneself for an ephemeral complacency of others. The wild flower, which bravely grows in lonely and hostile places, without any attention, it is a fantastic creature: it flaunts elegantly his very slow dance in a wonderfully empty theater. It give to the world a...
A little further downstream from the town of Roccamurata, a large black rock, an offshoot of the imposing Groppo di Gorro above, stands in the way of the waters of the Taro, which thus find themselves facing a very tenacious intruder. The waters, not at all intimidated, have smoothed and sculpted these rocks, until they are smooth as glass,...
Walking along the paths of "my" river in these beautiful late winter days, I met a person I hadn't seen for a long time, he too had a camera hanging from his neck: "well, as long as there's this around his neck it's a good sign", I exclaimed pointing at the camera, and meaning by this the passion for photography...
The ruins of the Gusaliggio manor in Val Mozzola, (in some ancient documents referred to as Gusaleggio, Gusalicchio or Sisaligio), are perhaps among the most fascinating in the Parma area, erected on a dizzying rocky spur, overlooking the Mozzola stream below. The overhang is impressive and exciting at the same time, which is why you need to be...
"You don't know the miracles that Nature can perform, just as the learned don't know either"
The marshy and marshy areas of the Po Valley were places that were in many ways difficult, scary, treacherous, and full of dangers of all kinds; popular imagination populated them with monsters and fantastic creatures of all kinds, then on closer inspection perhaps not even so much fantastic, probably just a little fictionalized.
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As long as freedom of thought is not a crime, I will express my ideas and opinions, through my words, through those of otherauthors that I appreciate and through my photographs and art in all its forms. Freedom is not a given, and many of us do not even know what it really is. We are victims of a world that has emptied our lives of meaning, of "sense", starting from the words themselves. Maybe we cannot do much about it, but just being aware of it can help us, at least to not make ourselves accomplices of our own slavery!
For this same reason I have abandoned social networks, communities, forums and so on, I have retired to private life and I dedicate myself exclusively to my sites and my blogs, with no other goals than pure personal satisfaction and my personal journey in search of "a meaning", which is a bit the fundamental objective of these pages: to search for a meaning through beauty, art, poetry, reflections, through a walk, a photograph, a bath in the river. Finding a center within ourselves through the exercise of simple things and the exercise of free will and free choice, collecting what I like and discarding what I don't like, as is natural for each of us. In this way I build my own virtual corner of paradise, or a sort of spiritual testament, that no one is required to share or appreciate. If these pages do not please you, you are free, indeed you are asked to go elsewhere, the ways of the Lord are infinite, aren't they?
Also for these reasons, I have fenced off my opinions and my most personal experiences in a strictly reserved area (for members only), not because there is some dark secret to hide, but because basically I do not have to answer to anyone for my ideas, and I would not even want to do so anymore, it would just be a waste of time, precious time. I have seen with experience that dialogue and comparison are very rare things, more often there is only the clash, the affront and the provocation, and after heated discussions everyone basically remains of his own idea, so all wasted time, better to dedicate oneself to more constructive things than fighting against windmills.
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