Digital Sketchbook-Micol Muratori

    I explore the fragility of the self through the technique of painting behind of the paper, choosing as subject of representation fragments of the human body.  These pieces show the relationship between past and present, since I used images from ancient classical art, mixed with my own imagery and photos, containing a sense of timelessness.  I like the effect of the tissue paper when it's glued onto another surface creating a sort of 'wrinkled' surface conveying movement.

In these experiments I used collage to:   -Play with the quality of different papers -Find strategies to get shapes from the drawing to 'invade' the external space - Double the image through two juxtaposed pictures - Explore the concept of fragility and (impossible) concealment, using tracing paper  -Explore the ambiguity of the subject when it is in isolation from its original context

Christian Boltanski The Reserve of Dead Swiss, 1990, Mixed media “Monument Odessa”, 1991, Mixed media The themes Boltanky works with interest me, his practice being centred on humanity, themes of life and death, memory and the ephemerality of life. The central role of memory in his works is reflected in works that are similar to archives and in the use of old photographs. The simplicity of his installations, which at the same time manage to evoke deep emotions, fascinates me. His works convey dramaticity and a discomforting feeling, especially where black and white photographs of Holocaust victims are shown as deprived of their identity through obfuscated close ups of faces.  Lights and shadows have a particularly important role in his works, both in order to convey dramaticity and a deeper meaning. Light, which comes from light bulbs illuminating parts of the piece or surrounding it, represents life and the immortality of the deceased victims through memory, so that their so

  Workshop on Making Cyanotypes with the artist Emma Stibbon The workshop and the technique of 'drawing with light' really appealed to me, and I found it fitting with my current experiments and interests in light and shadows. The technique enables to create interesting images in a very easy and cheap way, and lies between drawing- involving the invention of new compositions- and photography- the result is the exact imprint of the objects placed on the paper.  This concept also made me think about absence and presence, expressed by the trace left by something which has touched the paper but is not there anymore. The above images are the outcomes of the workshop-  I particularly like how the glove turned out- the details of the folds and its sense of transparency