Unanswered Prayers


  • Photographer
    Anna Paola Pizzocaro
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    ANNA PAOLA PIZZOCARO
  • Date of Photograph
    2011
  • Technical Info
    Photography

My series "Unanswered Prayers" presents photographic prints of animals juxtaposed against the interior rooms of an abandoned house or the exterior city-scapes. A tide runs through them, creating a consistent theme of the well-known story of the Great Flood. Arresting images of destruction and despair according with the title, as there seems to be no salvation from natural disasters. Some calm and peaceful, others more jubilant, each work expresses an urgency based on impending distress. In a quiet morning, lions, flamingos, polar bears,sea lions and tigers can all be seen drifted through the rooms of an abandoned apartment, though still showing signs of being formerly luxurious. The apartment being a metaphor for the Noah's Arch, chairs, mirrors and dusty curtains are some of the remnants left behind by a former owner. Beginning as small waves and turning into a deluge, the water progressively rises within the rooms until they are completely submerged by the end of the day. There is definite tension in my work: between the figures and their surroundings, and also between reality and virtuality. My work subtly combine real photographic images with technical skill trying to represent surreal worlds in the most realistic way possible thanks to contemporary techniques. The main subject running through my artworks is the concern about global worming and adaptation on our beloved planet. This series has been exhibited at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC in 2014, and the artwork "On the other side of the mirror" from this series is now part of the permanent collection of the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C.

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