Noepoli Work, Italy

I'm nearly complete with my work here and being quite productive in my short 2 weeks, as the motivation of an exhibition on my last evening here definitely has added some push. For the size of this tiny village, apparently the exhibitions draw a good size crowd, so I'm preparing my work for hanging, as well as a slide show and artist talk.

The paintings I am posting are a few small sections of 3 long horizontal pieces that juxtapose different elements of the world I see around me with old archival photos I found in the local history museum. Then of course I have to mess with them to obscure any real definition of person or place. I have become more interested in the strange aspect of the images I use, and in this case contrasting them with the vertiginous views of the stone alleys that climb the side of this mountain.

Views of alleyways and old photos

Old photos of people and the village