Month: February 2025

On abstraction

techniques

I started a new creative series, during a travel in the Nordic European countries. I resumed a habit I had more than 15 years ago, of taking abstract photographs outdoor and during travel.

I love the many ways we can use to achieve abstraction, and already within this series I have found sub topics.

Architecture:

Graphic layout:

Light and shadow:

Travel:

Selecting and enhancing one abstract element is, during photography, achieved by subtraction.
This is a way of composition different respect to the other method I use, during indoor staged photography, where composition is achieved by addition.

I have now three different social channels dedicated to each of the following creative topics:

Instagram @thecultofquilt – quilting and staged photography

Instagram @the_cult_of_ink – drawing

BlueSky @thecultofdaylight – abstract and travel photography

I work across many mediums: quilting, drawing, photography. I feel that there is a strong connection between the three mediums, and what I practice in one medium influences my way of working with another one.

River of dreams

Exhibits

It’s refreshing, when I manage to stay in the sun, together with the colours of water, during my 5-seams per day short session. It reminds me of the wonderful atmosphere I found on the Tagliamento river last Sunday, when I visited it again after years.

In the past I used to go very often to the Tagliamento river, reaching it after a short travel by train and by bike. This week I experimented a new version: train plus walk. One hour and a half of train, and one hour of walk were needed, before reaching the riverbed. But when I was there, in a wonderful sunny day, it was extremely welcoming.

The river is capable to create infinite textures. On the sand, I found many types of waves. And small little dots created by the rain, no idea how many days before. I didn’t dare to put the imprint of my feet on that sand, I felt immense respect for the marks created by nature. I rather walked on the stones and on the branches of fallen trees.

I have created many quilts dedicated to rivers, three of them only for Tagliamento river, together with a photo gallery exhibit and a photo book, which is available for free download at this link.

Returning to the river this weekend was like walking inside one of my dreams. I dream, sometimes of being again on the river. Evidently, it’s a place of must-return.