BEAUTY INTERRUPTED
This series confronts the silent violence of plastic pollution, a disturbance so omnipresent it has begun to camouflage itself within the aesthetics of our world.
Upon returning to my studio in Milan after the lockdown, I was drawn to the serene perfection of plants, their forms, their stillness, their quiet dignity. I set out to photograph them in their natural grace, seeking beauty as a form of reassurance.
But that pursuit was soon disrupted. My eye fell on a crumpled piece of plastic lying on the studio floor, a banal, everyday object I had stopped noticing. I instinctively picked it up and placed it on one of the flowers. The contrast was jarring: something synthetic and disposable contaminating something alive and timeless.
That moment revealed the core of the series. Beauty Interrupted reflects on how artificiality, especially in the form of plastic, a byproduct of the very lifestyle obsessed with surface and perfection, has infiltrated the deepest roots of our planet. Nature is no longer untouched. Even its most delicate expressions are dressed in our waste.
This work is a quiet indictment and a visual metaphor: beauty, today, cannot be separated from the traces of our pollution.