Biancaneve Make-up, a 200-frame collection, depicts an unusual day through lines, colours, and compositions. The creative process starts with arranging six lines on the snow, modelled on the first hexagram of the I Ching oracle, the Qián ䷀, or Creative. The lines were made of polystyrene sheets treated with coloured pigments. I then interacted with the starting pattern of lines, breaking them down and seeking other dispositions, while taking numerous pothographs of each movement. Over the years, the images from that day have been assembled into a stop-motion sequence, which was ultimately reworked digitally, using them on a very small scale as a repeating pattern across 200 frames, while the grids behind shift and the colours follow different points of light. The result is a visual meditation on intuition, order, and chance.
The initial arrangement of the lines. Lago Laceno, Irpinia, 2009