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Even on my last visit to Beeston, a city that borders Nottingham, I discovered something interesting that caught my attention and my eyes. Here, where The Ghost Bus project was born, I came across, last spring, not a car or a bus of public transport, but a large container of waste and building materials (“Ward, Metal & Waste Recycling”)..

I don’t know if now the big blue steel container is still in the place where I saw it. Maybe not. On that day it was located in the large square in front of the ARC Cinema Beeston, where construction work was in progress. The large metal case was marked with scratches, cracks, corrosion and rust. Just enough to catch my interest: I took macro photos and close-ups.

Traces and lines ran along the surface of the large container. Here are some of the many photographs I took around the large blue “tub” that bore the signs of time and work. For me, it was like an original installation of modern art, placed outdoors, visible to everyone, including passers-by. The pictures featured in the Slideshow are  just natural, random and not manipulated images of the amazing imperfection of the real world we see around us. They are part of “LaceR/Actions”, a multidisciplinary project and research about the apparent chaos of torn and decomposed outdoor advertisings, natural cracks, scratches and urban/industrial tokens. Transferred on canvases, reproduced on lithographic prints or textiles (as pure silk), re-built on collages or scanned in videoclips, the images of torn and disfigured posters and natural cracks and scratches give new meanings and expressions to matter decomposition, as you may see in this photo-gallery showing some works from my collection of about 150.000 images captured so far around the world.

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Anche nella mia ultima visita a Beeston, città che confina con Nottingham, ho scoperto qualcosa di interessante che ha catturato la mia attenzione e i miei occhi. Qui, dove è nato il progetto The Ghost Bus, mi sono imbattuto, nella scorsa primavera, non in un autoveicolo o un mezzo di trasporto, ma in un grande contenitore di scarti e rifiuti di materiali edili.

Non so se ora il grande contenitore blu in acciaio sia ancora nel posto dove l’avevo visto. Può darsi di no. In quel giorno era localizzato nella grande piazza di fronte all’ ARC Cinema Beeston, dove erano in corso dei lavori edili. La grande cassa metallica era segnata da graffi, crepe, corrosioni e ruggini. Quanto basta per attirare il mio interesse. Ho scattato un bel po’ di macro fotografie e foto ravvicinate. 

 Tracce e linee percorrevano la la superficie del grande contenitore. Ecco alcune delle molte fotografie che ho scattato attorno alla grande “vasca” blu che portava con se i segni del tempo e del lavoro. Per me, era come una originale istallazione di arte moderna, collocata all’aperto, visibile a tutti, passanti compresi.