Fusione: Pont Sant Angelo 2C, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.
While in Italy in 2022 I spent two weeks in Roma, as a continuation and supplement to my residency in Napoli in May. I wandered the city, again focusing on archaeological sites and museums, shooting and creating a project of multiple exposure photographs that will eventually be processed into the Roma Fusione body of work. Some of the work I did in Roma was specific to the Napoli Farnese + Roma Caracalla body of work and some specific to Roma and its vast archive of historic art and architecture. Everywhere one goes in Roma there is another surprise, treasure or significant, sometimes overlooked, example of the birth of Western civilization. It is a city of endless mystery, antiquity, romance and art and architectural marvels. It is a city that thrills my imagination and shifts my perceptions.
Below are examples of the multiple-exposure photographs I made while in Roma, specific to Roma. They are photographs of sculpture and architecture layered together and combined with photographs of my paintings in progress.
With the digital layering process I am fusing the past with the present. This process is an attempt to story forth and emphasize what I feel is relevant from personal and collective memory and history while simultaneously dissolving and obscuring those past ideologies that have zero relevance for 21st century humanity.
The Fusiones culminate in resonant echoes of the past integrating and converging with my paintings in the present. They are disruptive narratives that speak of a transformed and altered world and a shifting paradigm suffused in an illuminated optimism.
Fusione: Pont Sant Angelo 1D, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.
Fusione: Diocleziano 6D, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.
Fusione: Pont Sant Angelo 1B, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.
Fusione: Pont Sant Angelo 3B, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.
Fusione: Diocleziano 1C, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.
Fusione: Pont Sant Angelo 4B, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.
Fusione: Roma Diocleziano IIC, 2022, oil on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, size variable.