WILDWEST
 

between myth, game and memory

 

This project is a game.

It is above all because toys are the subjects photographed, indians, cowboys, soldiers. Then because before photographing them I really played with them, setting them and imagining stories and representative moments of that historical period, gradually assuming the role of director, set designer, screenwriter and protagonist.

However the toy soldiers are indistinct, confused, taken wide open to limit as much as possible the focus area to only one part of the image, not only to make the toy hardly recognizable as such, but also because in this way the action represented is more dynamic and suggestive. The photo loses its descriptive value and evokes those iconic, romantic characters and those adventures that make the American far-west the myth it is, certainly recalling the countless films, comics and books that have told it but at the same time leaving the viewer free to imagine his own story and play with the myth.

Finally, the blurred image becomes the personal and distant memory of when I used to play with similar toys for hours as a kid.