Marcella Giulia Lorenzi
Artist - researcher
University of Calabria
Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy
The word “Photography” comes from two Greek words, Photos (light) and Graphos
(writing, painting), so “drawing with the light”. Taking pictures needs some devices
and a particular process in Space and Time. According to Einstein the basic structure
of our world is SpaceTime and things exist in a spacetime continuum, a world of four
dimensions: height, width, depth and time. A generative process is usually referred to
as “setting in motion”. Motion is the essence of Life. To be alive is to move. Selecting
particular initial conditions, adding a fourth dimension and photographing motion by
means of randomised generative processes can give rise to very expressionistic
results. "Painting with light".
Wormhole
1800x1350 pixels
digital photo
2009
Light waves in a newborn Universe. From a dark background blue and multicoloured light spirals spring-up and form a wormhole. Rays loop and loop around, while matter flows through the handles of the hole. It disappears and reappears many times, while the Universe grows and tunnels in a quantum phantasmagoric evolution.
Tunnel in the Universe
1800x1350 pixels
digital photo
2009
A tunnel in the Universe emerges from the dark. While particles and energy wrap around and their velocity produces mass and curves straight lines, light sits at the bottom while darkness obscures the vault of the tunnel.
Dark matter is hidden there...!