Dashing back and forth, thought wanders. It is related to looking. I need a momentary glimpse—a slight clearing in the midst of an incongruous landscape—and from there, I try to piece together the perfect land, made of fragments mixed with signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them. The clearing takes time: first, patience, vibrations, attention, then humility. My train through Piedmont flashes past villages and hills. Because my window is my companion for re-looking, I am fascinated with the perception of light & darkness. In the fog, the self remains fluid, loading with perpetuity.
Bio Marina Black is a portrait and headshot photographer specializing in actors and creatives. She combines a fine-art and history background with a lifelong passion for theatre — one that began in Moscow, where she attended performances weekly as a child, and later deepened when she served as art director for Toronto Laboratory Theatre’s 2015 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche project. She loves everything “Italy", especially Venice and its legendary carnival and theatrical traditions. Her intuitive, painterly portraits capture the charged tension ignited by theatre’s unique marriage of public spectacle an
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