Lucky Bug Magazine

Click on image to make larger.

::

“I believe that my greatest anguish is not being able to mirror myself in what I see around me but only in my twisted drawings, in the broken lines, in the torn photos, and soiled thousands and thousands times. absolute white, in the only contrast that I bear and that I want of myself, in my world. I like absolutes that have all the contradictions of all universes. There is no art that I like but the continuous mixture of the only art in many arts that become a single autistic art. It is as if I continually bend over me when I stumble upon me. Photography recalls my ancestral memories, it opens my soul to me revealing my new face that I had lost and that always it escapes me. It is a game of photographing, a cathartic and fatal game, never completed. that speaks with the black, in rivers and I cut and sew my thoughts with the emotions of the world that I cannot grasp and make mine. The voice disappears among the cut and torn photos, the letters are white, the voices black.” Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela is a visual artist. He lives in Italy. He is a totally and proudly self-taught photographer, freelance journalist, cartoonist, painter, collagist, and tarotologist. He has been professionally doing this work since 1995. He paints always, everyday, all the time.