GIULIANO OTTAVIANI
Eggs, Flour, Perspective

I always wanted to try a series about the simplicity and elegance hidden in the shape of egg pasta. The making of egg pasta is a family tradition that I have learned thanks my mother’s harsh teachings. So everything in this series has been moulded by my hands and then shot, one photo per day.

I’m a photographer who normally works with colour, and I often do it on an intellectual level. So, as I wanted to nourish the instinctual side of this work, I chose to remove the colours from the equation. That choice left me with my love of pasta making and my inner compulsion to explore the spatial potential and the texture of every single object I put my hands on.

Pasta is here deprived of its primary function and rethought as a toy used to create visual entertainment and stimulation for the imagination. Some photographs are more evocative, others more abstract. It is important to understand that I’ve placed absolutelry no hidden message in this series, just my inner child.

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