Through the Window by the Sea

A photo composite of multiple exposures. From the photographer: “The Monument for a Dead Poet is part of one of the 12 works that make up an open-air museum called Fiumara D’arte. Although not all the installations are located outside, the most characteristic works are an example of Land Art that enrich the landscape of some towns in the Messina area in the area surrounding the Tusa river. Among the most iconographic works, the Monument to a Dead Poet, otherwise known as the “Window on the Sea”, certainly stands out. ” The sculpture, conceived by Tano Festa and dedicated to his poet brother, is a hymn to color and childhood, recurring themes in the artist’s works. The frame, 18 meters high, made of reinforced concrete and iron armor, is the triumph of blue, not of what we usually see on a painter’s palette, but of what is in the soul, when a poet-sculptor like Tano Festa, who was both an adult and a child, decides to look out onto the infinite .” These are the words that we find near the installation. Consistent with this interpretation, I wanted to frame the recent conjunction between Jupiter, the sickle Moon and Venus. The mind looks towards the cosmos through the window gratified by the sight of these celestial stars and the great megalith, which makes the work three-dimensional, seems to invite our thoughts to abandon earthly materiality to project ourselves in search of the mysteries of the universe.”

Technical details: Canon 6d, sigma 50mm, f/5.6, iso 400, 5 sec, stack of 13 shots for the sky, iso 100, f/5.6, 40 sec and 20 sec for the landscape