Light Drawings After Music of the Giants

These images look documented, but they are not. They are movements, images of a silence interrupted by human breath, moulded by the light of the surroundings. The works were taken in Medveja (Croatia) with long exposure times using body movements.

These images look documented, but they are not. They are movements, recordings of a silence interrupted by human breath, moulded by the light of the surroundings. Each photo in this series was taken after listening to the music of Blagoje Bersa, Philip Glass, Sergei Rachmaninoff and the breathless gestures of Pina Bausch. I waited for the darkness as a gift from the sunset and moved through it with a handheld camera, imagining that I was a calligrapher drawing in the air, not knowing if the line would stay — or disappear. These are my nocturnal scores. The works were shot in Medveja on the Adriatic coast with long exposure times (2 to 4 seconds) and high ISO values (1200–2400) so that the light could write itself freely across the image. Nothing was added or constructed; the gestures are real, fleeting and improvised — taken as they passed by, just once. This is not a gallery of moments. This is a gallery of temporal traces — echoes of listening, drawn in the light. Echoes of giants of piano music.