Andrea Escobar
Abelardo Morell
"THE GRAND CANAL LOOKING WEST TOWARD THE ACADEMIA BRIDGE IN PALAZZO ROOM UNDER CONSTRUCTION"
Venice, Italy; 2007
Abelardo
Morell is a photographer that made his first photo using the "Camera
Obscura". When he visits new locations, he covers the windows of his
dwellings with black plastic. He makes a hole in the plastic and places
a prism over it, in order for the outside's panoramic view to come in.
I
chose this image because it was very intriguing and dreamlike to me.
How can a beautiful location look extremely real in an ordinary room? I
have a deep desire to travel but I'm unable to. I'm an ordinary person
and when I imagine the locations around the world they look very
intriguing to me. The desire to travel there only occurs in my
imagination or in dreams. This image looks imaginary and unique like
the rest of the world looks to me. However, the rich saturation, hue,
the ladder and the door gives me hope. The bright light emitting from
the outside also represents hope for me. It represents the light at the
end of the tunnel.
