A Sandstorm Painting : Trip Under the Microscope

 

Vent de Sable

 

“Vent de Sable” (A Sandstorm in French) is a small fresco painting (27,5 x 27,5 inches). With the friendly help of a round nose trowel, several lime plaster coats were applied upon a rough hemp cloth stuck on a wooden panel, and then painted with a dispersion of oxides and colored earths in water (a fresco).
The movements in the color of the central horizontal part are supposed to illustrate an unusual event : a sandstorm.
And the upper and lower stripes are the gap through which one can observe it.
But from very close, it is to another kind of trip you will be invited.
I cannot prevent thinking of astronomy pictures then : The surface of Jupiter, and its mysterious moons, or Saturn, with its colored rings.
A kind of trip where nearness and infinitely big can merge together sometimes! Like all those worlds that are wandering inside us, continuously.

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To Axel, who still walks around beside me “sul cammin’ della bellezza”.

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