Details: The relative flow of time
Life on the city can be filled with solitude even if you do not live alone at all. On the suburbs, a man and a woman work on different hours on the same factory, so as long as one of them is going home, the other is heading to work, and vice versa, preventing them from meeting at the same place at the same hour. In this intermediate state of their marriage, time flows strangely, and its hard to tell whats yesterday or tomorrow.
This visual narrative was part of my graduation project, one of the six visual narratives created and inspired by Italo Calvino's tales "Difficult loves". The main idea was to explore an emotional depiction of the lover's apartment, where you can see fragments of daily life, but never the meeting of the characters. The whole illustration was built as a panomaric view, urging the readers to view the scenes as they travel this routine scenery.
Gouache | 2019
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Work in progress
For this series I got a huge inspiration from Ashcan School artists, specially Edward Hopper. The strong emphasis on lonelyness and life on the big city spoke directly to his work, so many of the pantings make reference to his pieces. Here I share some discarded images and visual references from cinema, photography and painting.
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