Who Knows??

Is organic harvested food healthier than the chemically treated and fertilized one??

Is it at least tastier??

Is organic cotton more comfortable??

Does an organic cream really make you look younger??

The impact of “organic” is definitely becoming more and more visible everywhere. Even the Prince is sincerely committed in this “virtuous circle”.

For sure this must be the source of a number of articles that I have recently read. They were trying to scientifically approach the real benefits of the green trend.

I am totally unconcerned by this point!

Nevertheless they have made me thinking about its meaning.

Honestly I do love organic!!

It surely must depend on my Italian origin: I grew up in my grandma's naturally run kitchen where I used to eat delicious food prepared with seasonal products.

Whether organic or not, I perfectly remember this simple rule: tomatoes = summer.            

YOU COULDN’T EAT FRESH TOMATOES IN WINTER!!

That’s why we used to spend all of September preparing hundreds of tomato sauce bottles…

Today “organic” is my way to feel connected with my grandma: she had been washing her face with basic marseille soap for all her life and she ended up with an enviable amount of only 3 wrinkles!

I feel that what we commonly forget is that we all come from Nature.

And this source is what we share with animals and plants, even when we eat them!

So when I go to the supermarket and choose "organic" I’m just trying not to forget this simple evidence, not that I'm feeling sorry for the chicken which in any way is already dead and is living its celestial life in the chickens heaven...

In other words I’m trying to respect myself and my natural origin!

Is this Art???

Recently I went to the summer exhibition at Tate Modern, Exposed_Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera. It's a huge appealing exhibition, definitely consistent with its title. That's why I shouldn't have been surprised to find a section where cctv camera shots were shown after a long succession of beautiful images. Obviously it was at the end of the exhibition, when you arrive emotionally exhausted by such a big  amount of pictures. I thought that that must be the main reason why at that point I got nervous...

Some days later I visited another exhibtion at Tate Modern and this time I didn't get any disappointments. Francis Alys is definetly a great contemporary artist. Just near the book-shop there is a series of tv monitors showing the Nightwatch. It's a pretty famous video that he realised letting a fox free to stroll around the National Portrait Gallery of London during the night time. http://www.francisalys.com/online/nightwatch.html
It's a work about cctv cameras, cohabitation of human beings and animals in a capital city, museum, etc etc. I don't want to talk about Francis Alys, I think there is enough literature about his work.

Nowadays I have the feeling that a lot of contemporary art is acknowledged and praised because it's "conceptual".
Honestly I can't stand this point !!
If I don't like something I can't say it's art just because there is a mind behind it...
What I expect from a work of art is to be emotionally striking, aestethically pleasing and that when I come back home my mind is still thinking about what I've seen... but not just because I'm nervous!!

why so much creativity in the shop-windows?

Some days ago I was walking with my camera trying to get some nice pics of people shopping in the West-End of London. As a matter of fact I wasn't able to find anybody that was looking at the shop-windows. 
Rather than finding someone modelling for my old-fashion idea of shopping, I realized that everybody knew exactely which shop they had to get into. 
London is the place where the first day of the winter sales is just the day after the opening of Xmas presents... 
so what's the meaning of that wonderful creativity expressed in so many shop-windows here ??? 
I can't pass in front of Selfridges, Harvey Nicols or Carnaby Street' shops without stopping and admiring their effortless creativity. And it's not just a matter of fashion...


Eventually I simply felt the desire to celebrate that creativity with my camera!