A poëtic evocation...

The same cellphone from the Sicily pictures came spontaneously in my hands during my stay with Jan van Delden and I started taking some shots without thinking of making a movie. This is what it became thanks to the simple but effective editing application 'iMovie' on the Mac.

See it on youtube

Manipulating the Sky

Earlier I showed already a snapshot of a remarkable cloud. Now you can see the use of it when combined with one of the other shots I made in Sicily. It was a lot of fun and the results were great.
There is of course a limit in how big you can go in printing. They are printed on A3 paper (29,7 x 42 cm) and framed in black which gives a 40 x 50 cm frame.
So within the technical limitations the old adagio is proven: it's not the camera but the man behind who makes the picture. Certainly so when 50% of the result is made by the post-production of the shot (read Photoshop).

An icon created again

Between these two Nike's lies more or less 2200 years. The one on the right is the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Originally she had marble hands and head and was an ode to the goddess of victory to remember a sea battle that was won.
The left picture is placed in Sicily on the shore of Naxos where the first greek colonists arrived. Because of its famousness it uses the image of the former as we know it but it tells us the opposite.
This new bronze version is a more graphic, less threedimensional, sculpture. The movement and empty space gives it a fragile look, as of a deteriorated leaf. It shows that however big the moment was at some time in history, time itself will bring down those moments. So we build monuments and statues to remember - even to remember the transitory.
It's a visually strong artwork with one flaw - there are two disturbing reinforcements for the wings (not shown in this picture).

About the original Nike...