Trip the light fantastic is a series of 5 prints each from two overlapped 35mm color negatives; the results are sorts of double exposures in which the original images with their objects are indistinguishable, the light passing trough both negatives makes them blend and creates something new.
The project comes from how I relate to the environment and the place where I live, and to the time I spend there. In fact, the negatives I used were exposed in the two places that characterized the last months of my life: the city, Milano, and the mountains. For each print I used one negative exposed in the city and one in the mountains, in different periods of the year. So, two different space-time coordinates blend, and I can be in both places at the same time. The tension between two totally different environments resolves and they become one, and neither of the two exist anymore without the other: the resulting photos open up to another world, a new space-time dimension in which time is suspended and you can be in any place at the same time.
The title is Trip the Light Fantastic, an expression which means “to dance”, and also the title of a song by Greta Van Fleet in which it is interpreted as dancing through time and space without ever stop somewhere, in a precise place and time, and so be ultimately free. This is what my photos are: an attempt to reach freedom by a never-ending whirling dance in space in time, in which you no longer have to be precisely somewhere at a precise time and for a precise time. And in the analogue printing process the physical rules of our world are broken and light is now able to merge two distant moments.
