8 - Felice Panagrosso
The Art
Felice Panagrosso writes....
Regarding “Samuel” or “Boy on Staircase”: A boy – my son – turns not away, but inward. Absorbed in his task at hand. Building, discovering or simply observing. He is unaware, for now, of the new day, the new wonders, the new opportunities it will bring. He is not aware that I am observing him, and the warm light that surrounds and envelopes him.
The door faces east so the entryway was flooded with early morning light. The walls are “white,” and I tried to capture all of the reflective colors possible on the walls ceiling and door. I was struck by the fleeting nature of light, and of childhood.
At the bottom of the stairs, Sam, while bathed in that light is oblivious to it, and to the passage of time, simply focused on his project, a child at play.
Project 52.
The Artists
1 - Kathryn Portelli
2 - Helen Hiebert
3 - Petrus Spronk
4 - Ann Lewis
6 - Cornelius Cardew
7 - Bronle Crosby
10 - Casey Klahn
11 - Maggie Ruley
12 - Jim Carpenter
13 - Gerda Tobler
14 - Pete Goodlet
15 - Kathleen O’Brien
16 - Cynthia Morris
17 - Mark Payne
18 - Juli Cady Ryan
19 - Shakespeare
20 - Jack Fisher
21 -Nanci Hersh
22 - Padraig McCaul
23 - Laurie LeBreton
24 - Sophia Khan
25 - Linnet Hunter
26 - Lisa Call
27 - Brenda York
28 - Holly Wilson
29 - Dariusz Klimczak
30 - India Flint
31 - Chris Maynard
32 - Mauricio Paz Viola
33 -
35 - Patty Sgrecci
The Music
My music
I'm delighted by Felice's ambience and light; his linking the passage of time with the fleeting nature of light, and of childhood . It reminded of a poem by Nancy Cato called “Time Passing”
"….So the simplest scene may be imbued, transfigured
With a sense of time passing, when music plays;
And so the face of a loved one grows
More beautiful as the boat’s last whistle blows".
(from her poetry collection,”The Dancing Bough” (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1957).