alpha words – blog of alfa

Macro images of Berlusconi and his world.

inside Milano’s central train station

Ancona Storta
Ancona, Marche
Italy, 2008

 what are we demonstrating?/che cosa manifestiamo?  

A modern triptych: Trittico
Two entities can be divided, morally and physically. Only through union can they be one. Only after and prolonged union can they be a single entity and become one, fully understandable. Plato would have talked hours about the division that created men and women, his Myth of Creation.

Every now and then I enjoy classic portraits. It’s something you have to try to understand what direct, frontal, one on one portraiture is about. And you figure out that it’s really more than simply observing an event or a scene, it’s interacting with it as well, strongly.  
 

Alberto was born in Messina, Italy. Son of violence in a southern slum he has known addiction, isolation and hate. He has reached the limit and decided to stop. He was seeing death.He went into rehab. Survived and fights each day, from then, with social incomprehension. He shares his experience. He teaches freedom.
“Drugs are sons [...]

These three steps iterate continuously as time passes by. No one instant is like the other and the product of this activity is the testimony of what has done and a clue to what the next product will be.
Just like watching a couple pass by near you while you’re taking a coffee in a bar [...]

I was talking to my wife the other day while showing her which of my works are more “loved by the public”. She pointed me out they where the ones were my heart was. I smiled at her understanding once more why I love her. This is what I believe an Artist should do, give [...]