CATERPILLAR
“Caterpillar” is a personal journey into my own soul, disrupted by life-events, that tries to be reborn as a new form of life. It represents the sense of disappearing in a world in which I sensed I didn’t belong anymore and the urge to use photography as a form of art-therapy to heal my emotional wounds.
Starting from this sense of isolation and challenging mental state, it depicts a self-transformation and the mutation of the surrounding word through photographic creation that becomes means and emblem.
Starting each time from a symbolic image shot in analogue using long or multiple exposure and then transfiguring, painting, manipulating, destroying and recomposing each print; concepts like space, time, identity and depiction are completely redefined. Photography becomes an object and each time it is re-photographer, meanwhile in each image concepts like “me” or “my world” are manipulated, transformed and represented as something totally different.
Supporting photographs with a cryptic text, structurally inspired by Japanese Haiku poetry, those emotions generated by those transformations are exalted.
Little by little, words become less and less unclear and readable until they verge into the creation of a brand new language, so that the portrayed self-identity and environment are annulled, until they disappear completely.
Subject has been transformed into a new creature and the same transformation has been applied to the surrounding world that becomes completely different: a physical, surreal, emotional and symbolic place in which I can feel being part of something again.
It’s a life cycle in which the caterpillar becomes a chrysalis and a butterfly: the old-self stops existing to give space to a new creature.
The self-published limited edition of the book will be available in 2021. For inquiries, please contact: dayanamarconiimage@gmail.com.
The project has been created during the Art Residency “Human: The Lab 2019/2020” at Yougurt Magazine, Rome, Italy, for a potential publication.
©Dayana Sharon Marconi 2019/2020. Copyright for this photo gallery belongs solely to Dayana Sharon Marconi. All materials may not be used or downloaded without her permission.
Created in: Rome/Asti/Turin, Italy.