Silver Gellatin Fiber 9×12 in

Tarkovski’s vision is one of my major influences. His work combines careful observation of nature with a touch of nostalgia. This is one of the photographs I took while traveling to Italy. I experienced there a phenomenon unique to that part of the world, a phenomenon often depicted in Italian baroque paintings which I had often dismissed as a product of artistic license and exaggeration. But on traveling there, I discovered the artists were very literally copying what they saw: on certain summer storms, the clouds would spiral and churn dramatically in little movements, sometimes allowing little glimmers of sunlight. It was a spectacular sight that was commonplace there, but that I have never seen neither in the Balkans nor in North America.