The photographic project is the part of the project that talks about the order. The topic that I chose is the feeling of alienation derived from the extreme order. The repetition of the same actions day by day leads the person to feel lost in the days.

The first idea that I came out with was to analyze how my grandparents were living the quarantine. The quarantine has been a strange and particular period for everyone, and everyone was complaining about the constant feeling of boredom and alienation due to the repetition of the same actions day by day. This feeling, though, was not affecting my grandparents at all who were, with few little adjustments, still living the same life as always.

After noticing that, I started questioning my grandparents’ everyday life and I figured out a pattern. The grandparents’ life is a repetition of the same day that is interrupted by the arrival of Sundays and festivities or any occasion when the closest part of the family comes together and breaks their schedule. These few events are the only eccentricities that are allowed in this extremely ordered world but do not create chaos.

After this analysis I decided to recreate, with the pictures of everyday life, the feeling of alienation that derives from the repetition of the same day. The series starts with colored pictures that represent the Sunday and continues with darker and darker black and white pictures that represent the days of the week till the come of a new Sunday. The choice to use both colored and B&W pictures fullfils the need to represent two different feelings. The use of B&W in the week pictures wants to give the viewer the feeling of being lost, the use of colors in the Sundays wants to transmit the clarity of these eccentric days.

The photos are also positioned horizontally in order to show the color pattern over the 8 days. The series starts with a Sunday and ends with a Sunday.

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