A lit candle lit the following and other coincidences on existence
16,5 x 24 cm
72 pages
design by Emilio Macchia
text by Duccio Doretti
Winner of Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award
ISBN: 978-88-941882-4-0
Photobook was published in august 2017
"
The
universe is 13.7 billion years old.
And
it was on on clear sky of july when Apollo 11 left the Kennedy Space
Center towards the moon. A mundane event through present eyes as
landmark for that time, for scientific research and space
exploration. I tend to attribute to this date the beginning of a
revolution, a new way of seeing not the world, but beyond the world.
The magnificent desolation of Buzz Aldrin has the value of the
discovery, of human creation. A new nature has been exposed in front
of our eyes no longer on the books, in reality.
Beyond
any space race in the cold war, human evolution has exceeded the
imaginable, becoming a point of light in our history too often
dark.
Many
astronauts and cosmonauts have reported like seeing the Earth from
space has had a very profound effect in their mind.
How
small and fragile?
How
futile?
And
how can a man kill another man, because the same day some years
before the atomic bomb had disintegrated, deflagrated. The Trinity
test is the first of its species, of our history. The atomic bomb has
been released and will not turn back. A destiny, that of man, of
self-destruction, despair, vilified by violence.
Just
the beginning of what would have been happened on august 6th and
august 9th, in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
The
genie came out of the bottle and reality didn’t stop. Thanatos
descended from the sky with a spear and marked us.
I
am God the only noise I can hear in a tree or a life wiped out. A
black spot on a bright surface. Nature erased from history.
July
16th, 1945 and July 16th, 1969 are the beginning of two eras, that
clash it together and flowing in different direction.
I
see the Yin and Yang of the man.
Annihilation
and Creation.
Maybe
the coincidences do not exist, or maybe they exist, anyway I was born
on July 16th."
