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Windows on another world

Inner world and experience world.

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The fresco Windows on another world is an impossible structure inspired by a famous drawing of Escher. The view outside the arches does not coincide with their perspective, except the middle ones: for example the upper arches have a perspective so that the view outside them should be from top to bottom, while you can see the sky (from bottom to top), and the arches underneath have a perspective so that the view outside them should be from bottom to top, while you can see sea depth. Only the middle arches are consistent.

This evident mistake is truly wanted: if we think about our body as if it was a building holding our soul, these complex and absurd structures might be our mind schema, which we use to explain to ourselves physical world, experience world; and this "mistake" reminds us how inadequate, rough tools, improper to understand and really catch the physical world, which appears to us always unexpected and inexplicable.
Only a small part of it is clear to us: the view outside the middle arches; most of the events and phenomena do happen without our comprehension, without we are ready to see and understand them, the upper arches looking to the sky on the contrary should show a view from top to bottom, while the arches underneath should show a view from bottom to top, while instead everything is upside down, still in a way that the confusion is truly created by the structure of our mind, if we could get rid of it, everything would make sense and would have unity.

Private collection
Year: June 2006
Measures: 99 x 125 cm.
Colours: acrylic, pigments and gold leaf.

The Sun and the light trees Further away on the middle arch, we see the Sun, laying on the lawn, and behind it some trees shading in the horizon, as bright as small suns themselves. The perspective of the inner architecture is the same of the outside one, we do catch a small part of the physical world as it appear to us.

The Air world

The upper arches are dedicated to the air world: a black variegated with gold butterfly, a rainbow painted bird, and a dragonfly with silver reflection on its wigs.

The water world

The arches underneath are dedicated to a water world peopled by fantastic seashells, a violet sunflower, silver fish and a tortoise seeming to fly... The columns are decorated by golden friezes.

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