C H I A R O S C U R O
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Thomas Paturet
Date : 2020
Location : Mount Saint Helens & Mount Rainier, Washington
Text : Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions, 1935
Location : Mount Saint Helens & Mount Rainier, Washington
Text : Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions, 1935
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This project has been inspired by Nicolas K Feldmeyer’s series ‘Even After All’.
From Rembrandt I’ve learned how little light there is in man. The Rembrandtesque portrait exhausts all its light resources; there is no more light in it. Light itself seems to be the interior refraction of a light that dies somewhere, far away. Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro doesn’t derive from bringing clarity and darkness in close proximity but from the illusion of light and from the infinity of the shadow. From Rembrandt I’ve learned that the world is born out of the shadow…
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro I
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro II
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro III
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro IV
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro V
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro VI
Mount Rainier - Chiaroscuro VII
