The 3C's rule

It's all about creativity, chalenges & changes.

• Create what your gutt asks you to.
• Chalenge yourself to be the best you can be.
• Change! Because that is what makes you evolve.

Don't be a copy-cat. You already know what you want to build, make, be.
Put yourself up to do something new, get over your limits and out of your comfort zone.
With every new experience, you are transformed. Embrace change, 'cause that what brought you where you are now.

And last but not least: don't follow the herd. Don't settle for what's good for others. Make your own choices and you'll be able to enrich everybody else with an unique human being.

Trust me, it works! ;)

So... why Shapes?

I often get faced with this simple question: "Why Shapes? Why did you name your project like that?". The answer is just as simple.

All around us is a shape of some sort. Trees, cars, animals, houses. All inside us has a metaphorical shape: our dreams, our plans, our memories, and even our feelings. We imagine and make plans following a pattern, a model, a scheme. Their visual expression on paper is a shape, a structure.

Given the fact that i chose to express myself via images and stories through images, the term "shapes" came naturally to me. Even since I was in primary school, I found myself very attracted to geometry, and what is geometry but the science of mathematical shapes!? I translated this concept in the way I would like to compose my images: with the use of shapes and forms.

In photography, the composition rules follow patterns, lines... geometry. Every image, if it is constructed via those rules, has a shape, an internal pattern that guides the eye through it (i.e. the rule of thirds, the Fibonacci number, etc).

In graphic design, geometry is self explanatory: vectors are grouped into groups that form objects, prints and so on. Ad a pinch of color and a whole world of shapes is born.

Last but not least, our whole world is made of shapes. I'm made of shapes, you're made of shapes. Thus my artistical concept is... a shape. A shape of my universe, of the way I create, of the way I represent the reality outside myself.

Once upon a December

On a quiet, foggy evening of December, dreams woke up from their slumber. One at a time, flapping their etherical eyelashes, showed up and asked to be fullfilled.

That asked for a plan. A daily task manager ment to set them free, and make them take shape... shapes... Shapes Studio!

So, as this year is going to end soon, a new action plan materializes on this very blog.
Watch closely as it unfolds. Christmas is nearly here. Wishes do come true.

December, make my wishes come true!