Handmade

The world is a busy place.
We spend the day running from here to there, barely
looking at where we are. We are all too occupied to stop
and stare. We use any opportunity to get out of the now, to
forget what we have in front. We do this because we need
to be costantly stimulated by something else, and reality is
not enough to keep us entertained.
Yet, even what’s common and banal has got something
that can enrich us.
How to bring out the magic of the everyday? How to make
sure we can still be excited by it, we can stop and stare at
it? I am sure there are lots of ways to do it.
Mine is to transform what is ordinary in extra-ordinary. It
is to turn a photograph in a painting. Or in a collage. Or in
a double-exposure that cannot possibly exist.
By adding strong colours, strokes, shapes, contrasts
and texture, I intend to create hand-made images that are
based on reality and inhance it.
The work in this book aims to turn routine into a fairy tale.
What is usual and known becomes magic and special.
Colours and textures highlight the mood of a scene, and
make emotions deeper.
Each piece is carefully crafted and hand-made. There is no
digital manipulation, no technological trick.
The manipulation is real. Paint is applied directly on the
photograph. Images are cut and stuck on different layers.
Blurred effects and double-exposures are created in the
camera. Everything is real, now and here.
These mixed-media images wish to seduce the viewer and
force them to look at them. They are there to remind us
that the world is a very interesting place, and we should
look at it, live it and feel it, rather than merely walk through
it thinking of something else.
TYRON’S VIEW
Acrylics and oil on double-exposure