Photographer Paola Tornambe is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Acquerello’. To see Paola’s body of work, click on any photograph.

Dilute, dissolve, blend. Created with the water as artwork, among multiple shades, iridescent and changing with each movement of the fluid, that multiplies and immerse and re-emerge again with always different combinations.

Painted by a fluid where creation and destruction are – at the end – two sides of the same coin, attached and similar, born from the combination of the artist’s genius and the ductility of the creating material.

Changing faces, at the edge of a variable transition, taken only before the moment that will transform them again, and maybe never really ready for the steadiness in the time and space. Disturbing moments before the transfiguration. Instants of existence.

Paola Tornambè’s photography is artistic and based on long exposure that allows her to melt different layers of images to create a pictorial effect. The images are in progress, they look intentionally blurred, dreamlike, evanescent. She photographs for the opposite reason that we can expect not to stop the time but to show its flow. She captures the different movements that we make in action; by living, this is her photographic obsession. Introspective, dreamlike, sometimes surrealist, Paola Tornambè’s images can be located at the border between “visible and invisible”. They are able to directly represent sensations and torments of being. A photography that shows, through the self-portrait: dreams, torments, unexpected and revealing sensations, soft and elusive emotions, deep dimensions of her restless soul and imagination, essence of lively magic interiority, blurred memories in a sign of light. A photograph full of melancholy and beauty, with a strong evoking power, near to picture and sculpture.

All images and text © Paola Tornambe