salvatore Arancio

"His artistic signature is photo-etching, but he works across a range of media such as collage, animation and video. Arancio’s main interest lies in the potential of images. Departing from their literal meaning, he creates new juxtapositions that are both beautifully evocative and deeply disquieting. He looks to nature and science for his sources of inspiration, while unsettling any hint of the sublime by re-framing the images and the viewer’s experience. His constructed landscapes contain a sense of both the familiar and the unknown that enhances their symbolic readings and implications." (properly referenced in bibliography)

here is an article taken from the guardian on salvatore Arancio who i still wished i looked at alot earlyer in my foundation year i think the last part of this text is sertanly true in his work and something i think about all the time when doing my own work the sence of worshiping or being drawn to somthing mystirose that you have no understanting of a good example of this feeling is the opening scene of 'a space odyssey 2001' where an obalisque aperes before these mokey men and they all go ape shit witch if im not mistaken Arancio has also coined with this piece which is a still from 'a space odyssey 2001'  with his own workings

Salvatore Arancio, Sentinel, 2009, Video for Projection, 9 min 13 sec

this feeling must be what dirives conspiracy theroists and ufo alien entusiasts mad carreied away with the feeling theres more to life i get it but with a ditached  distanced glance as in its the human condition to feel this way but i see it like for instace what would you rather belive if given a choice (your own thoughts aside), than humans realy went to the moon and walked around even dicked around with a golf club and poped a flag down thats still up there or that its all one big hoax.

http://youtu.be/ML1OZCHixR0

this clip sums it all up for me it couldent be more perfect it dosn't give anything away it just tickles that part of you that wants to belive there must be something more out there and thats somthing i think Arancio dose well and somthing im trying to allude to aswell.