Book Cover (II)
Unda Arte's book cover of the Swedish novel Mitt liv som du (My life as you) by Manuela Gaetani. Here you are meeting a person who can infiltrate your life, think your thoughts and feel what you are feeling...
Redemptio, the title of this photograph, denotes primarily deliverance from sin.., reconciliation by the work of Christ. Here the red leaves symbolise passion... According to Christian tradition, Jesus suffered and died for our sins. The significance of the angel may appear in the context after the deliverance, when tranquillity is reached.
Redemptio was exhibited in a group expo, Påsk och passion (Easter and Passion), at Gallery 3K in Old Town, Stockholm, Sweden, during Easter 2013.
Redemptio, the title of this photograph, denotes primarily deliverance from sin.., reconciliation by the work of Christ. Here the red leaves symbolise passion... According to Christian tradition, Jesus suffered and died for our sins. The significance of the angel may appear in the context after the deliverance, when tranquillity is reached.
Redemptio was exhibited in a group expo, Påsk och passion (Easter and Passion), at Gallery 3K in Old Town, Stockholm, Sweden, during Easter 2013.
Struggle with God
Woody Allen has described Ingmar Bergman as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera". Bergman directed over sixty films and documentaries, most of which he also wrote, and directed over one hundred and seventy plays.
Concerning his films, Bergman held Winter Light, Persona and Cries and Whispers in the highest regard, since these pushed the medium to its limit. In exploring death, faith, betrayal and insanity etc., his long time cinematographer Sven Nykvist was essential, capturing the light and the atmosphere on the screen. Our photograph is inspired by Winter Light, where the priest, (doubting) Tomas.., struggles with God. Bergman himself struggled with his faith – and had a complicated relationship to his father, who was a priest...
This photograph, many detective stories and Bergman's famous portrait of Death in The Seventh Seal – under a cloudy sky – may all be examples of postmodern hyperrealism. Fiction inspires the interpretation of reality; "gloomy" weather has obviously no natural connotations of anxiety/death...
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