Biancaneve Make-up | Still frame | #106 of a 200-frame collection

Biancaneve Make-up, a 200-frame collection, is inspired by the writings of Wassily Kandinsky on abstraction. The project depicts a day in the life of a Kandinsky-like artist • a spiritual being who communicates through lines, colours and compositions. The work draws from the aesthetic and conceptual legacy not only of Kandinsky himself, but also of figures such as Goethe, Piet Mondrian, Agnes Martin, and Anni Albers • all of whom were influential in shaping its visual and philosophical direction.

Biancaneve Make-up looks at the symbols and combinatorial principles which are at the basis of the Chinese oracle I Ching, consisting of 64 possible combinations of 6 lines.

The creative action starts with the disposition of the lines on the snow on the model of the first hexagram of the oracle, the Qián, or Creative.

The artist then interacts with the starting pattern of lines until she breaks them down and finds other unexpected combinations. The lines, made of polystyrene sheets treated with coloured pigments, are placed on the snowy surface and photographed at each stage of transformation • resulting in a 200-frame visual meditation on intuition, order, and chance.





Image of the initial arrangement of the lines.

The initial arrangement of the lines, captured in the snow. Lago Laceno, Irpinia, 2009