knusper knusper knauschen....wer knabert an mein hauschen ...?

said the wicked witch ...

 

 

 

i trulli ....

rain rain rain ..... so a post about " trulli"
here are some I shot earlier ... (Julia Childs voice)

"i trulli" are ancient beehive shaped houses built a very long time ago ...

They believe the trulli were first built in Puglia in the neolithic age and continued being built from then on .... however the first written and documented evidence of them is from the 15th century

now they are used as places to store farm equipment and pesticides (not so romantic ) but alot of them have been converted into sweet little holiday houses dotted around the countryside ...
The trulli are built in the "dry stone" technique ...no mortar ... like the old walls around the countryside here ...they seem like mini castles with crenellations on the tops and little spiral steps to the roof which often has a grass cap...
inside there are niches for altars and small fireplace alcoves...





my found trulli

songs in the key ... part 3

the set..

test prints ready to pick up tomorrow from Poia at the the ever obliging lab  ...

intention : 

 ...utilise my photographs of a  friend's Milanese abandoned house,.........................prior to its renovation by Dutch interiors space design  guru Geert Koster, 

"before" images for my shabbychic "nobilita cadente" location for my stop motion animation music clip...

wallpaper of woven silk and damask

imprinted with images of the paintings that once hung there ...

the acids from the golden gilt Borghese frames have absorbed into the fabric walls over the century 

leaving 3 dimensional feeling markings....

hmmmm my door seems a bit klunky and oversized....

(feel free to step right in here Koster !)

the puppet armature is in Norway having a wetfelted body sculpted...

the door and frame is being made by an amazing artist called Kallia ... in Greece !!!

 (more on Inger and Kallia to come ...)

character development

female

victorian

insecty

elegant

gung-ho

eccentric

full of personality and wit

quiet and pensive

looking at what could have been or what has been ... we never know...

 inspiration:

some of the fabulous works by blackeyedsuzie  and Ryiochi and Yinka Shonibare


and one of my own shoots in a Milanese apartment ... ... this is an apartment ..can you believe ?

not an apartment by "our new world " standards...
I havent really seen any "normal peoples" apartments with real candelabra fittings on the walls that are all made of gold .... and lightable candles...and museum piece portraits that must not be photographed for insurance reasons...
hmmm


well not so often anyway ...


aggghhh I love my Italy ....
just cant help it

I seem to have accidentally become an honorary spider fellow.....

black and white spider awards
is it a good thing ?....

eyebrows moving ....

*looks with magnifying glass at judges....

the "ghostgirl" does it again ....

shot on 5x4 inch, black and white, infrared film on a mono rail camera in an  abandoned house in Sydney Australia circa 1998

styled by Claire Potter .. (who has alot of letters after her name but I cant remember what they are ...something something something PhD philosophy, feminist studies... poet...psychoanalisi... something something .... another book launch about to happen... something something ...style guru  )

ghost girl

a long time ago
in a land far far away ...
there grew an obsession ...
for abandoned houses
and ghostly presences



"ghost girl" were my first ever published abandoned house shots ... they were shot about 15 years ago, on 5x4 inch infrared black and white sheet film ... not easy stuff to deal with ... film that has to be loaded by hand in a dark bag on location...

film which is affected not only by light and chemistry but also by heat (hence the fingerprints)






these images will be shown by the Arthaus66 gallery New Mexico.
10 x 12 inch prints in an edition of 10 each...

they are to be printed on the most luxurious Japanese black and white paper that is so matte you cannot see where it begins and ends .... zero reflectance ... it's wonderful stuff ...like the Yves Klein torso of Venus ...matte blue that fools the eye and makes spatial distance recognition impossible ...
(she most certainly wasn't in a case when I saw her ,.... I guess too many people just had to try and touch her ...)

hmmmmmmmmmm...............something something... something ...the dark side