"IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES | BY DAY AND BY NIGHT"
Accessories with digital designs: Chiara Cola
Photos: Ben Cook
Chiara Cola doesn't work with seasonal collections: all her accessories belong to conceptual series and are part of limited editions, signed and titled, just like a wearable digital painting.
"This new series presents imaginary landscapes, rich in details and colors, and portrays them in their day and night version.. light and darkness change very much the appearance of these parallel universes, in the same way they change the one of the cities we live in, making them sometimes more scary, sometimes more alive, surely different. This is my personal tribute to the theme of secret cities that i have been investigating for more than 4 years now and that i keep finding very intriguing.
Each portrait of these cities has, as usual in my work, a title and a story behind it.
They are very complex images: some are more abstract, others are rich in architectural shapes and cinematographic echoes, like a colored set, full of neon lights, in Las Vegas or Tokyo... places i have been dreaming of since my childhood and that I still haven't visited..
An intimate expression of the love and deep influence that the American and Japanese visual culture and production had, since I was a child, on the development of my sense of color and aesthetics. "
Chiara Cola
"This new series presents imaginary landscapes, rich in details and colors, and portrays them in their day and night version.. light and darkness change very much the appearance of these parallel universes, in the same way they change the one of the cities we live in, making them sometimes more scary, sometimes more alive, surely different. This is my personal tribute to the theme of secret cities that i have been investigating for more than 4 years now and that i keep finding very intriguing.
Each portrait of these cities has, as usual in my work, a title and a story behind it.
They are very complex images: some are more abstract, others are rich in architectural shapes and cinematographic echoes, like a colored set, full of neon lights, in Las Vegas or Tokyo... places i have been dreaming of since my childhood and that I still haven't visited..
An intimate expression of the love and deep influence that the American and Japanese visual culture and production had, since I was a child, on the development of my sense of color and aesthetics. "
Chiara Cola
FEATURED BY DIANE PERNET ON ASVOF, November 2013.
Digital designs: Chiara Cola
Photography and postproduction: Ben Cook
Assistant photographer: Melissa Mc Claren
Model: Laura Kell @ Profile Models, London, UK.
Make up artist: Bea Sweet
Hair stylist: Maria Kovacs
Shot at BedHead studios, London, UK, June 2013. Released on October 2013.
"The gambling city | by day"
"The gambling city | by night"
"The illusory bubbles city | by day"
"The multiple eyes city | by day"
"Underwater city | by day"
"Metal metropolis | by night"
"Metal metropolis | by day"
"The multiple eyes city | by day"
"The Pink-Orange Monster city | by night"
"Black - Fluo Prisma city | by day and by night"
All photos © Ben Cook 2014
All Chiara Cola's designs are registered patents, Please, don't reproduce any of these images without a prior, written permission of Chiara Cola and Ben Cook. Thank you!
