Playfulness
"Playfulness" is a visual exploration that invites us to reconnect with our children as well as the child within us. This long-term project, which I am creating in collaboration with my two daughters, was born from a simple question: how to bring back adults to the life's playground?
I started to photograph my daughters while they were playing. Then I realized how the act of playing was the key, the missing link, between the real and the imaginary worlds. It seemed to me that by playing, they were able to be their true selves and to gain self-confidence.
I think today we, adults, drifted away from who we were and found ourselves disconnected from who we are, from our true identity and from what makes us feel deeply fulfilled. This project addresses our inner child. It aims to reconnect us to our unique selves, and bring our best self to the world.
In these images, the human presence is integrated with the natural elements to remind us that we are part of a Whole. Hints of colors and shimmering emerge in the black and white photos as if to materialize this invisible, sometimes irrepressible creative energy, which is constantly changing and must be expressed in order to be channeled.
It is in the realm of the playfulness that the series develops. Everything becomes a pretext to subvert reality, process emotions and build memories. Such an approach could allow us to see life?s endless possibilities.
This project exists for the kids of course, but mainly to enable us, the adults, to approach everyday life from a completely different perspective, the one of the child we were, to (re)discover our true nature, as deep as it is powerful.
Sometimes we have to go backwards to move forward.
Playfulness
"Playfulness" is a visual exploration that invites us to reconnect with our children as well as the child within us. This long-term project, which I am creating in collaboration with my two daughters, was born from a simple question: how to bring back adults to the life's playground?
I started to photograph my daughters while they were playing. Then I realized how the act of playing was the key, the missing link, between the real and the imaginary worlds. It seemed to me that by playing, they were able to be their true selves and to gain self-confidence.
I think today we, adults, drifted away from who we were and found ourselves disconnected from who we are, from our true identity and from what makes us feel deeply fulfilled. This project addresses our inner child. It aims to reconnect us to our unique selves, and bring our best self to the world.
In these images, the human presence is integrated with the natural elements to remind us that we are part of a Whole. Hints of colors and shimmering emerge in the black and white photos as if to materialize this invisible, sometimes irrepressible creative energy, which is constantly changing and must be expressed in order to be channeled.
It is in the realm of the playfulness that the series develops. Everything becomes a pretext to subvert reality, process emotions and build memories. Such an approach could allow us to see life?s endless possibilities.
This project exists for the kids of course, but mainly to enable us, the adults, to approach everyday life from a completely different perspective, the one of the child we were, to (re)discover our true nature, as deep as it is powerful.
Sometimes we have to go backwards to move forward.
