Left Overs
Published on AArchitecture issue on "Silence" - September 2017, Architectural Association.
Here 3 selected poems and photographs out of 5 published.
Photographs by Jacopo A. Colarossi, description and poems written by Francesca R. Forlini.
Description:
Motionless, functionless and mute, objects with a lost, aborted story lie chaotically inside an auction storage space. The piling up of heterogeneous items suggests nothing but silence, the one inherent to their mere objecthood. On the contrary, what activates those objects, giving them character and use, lies in their interaction with human beings. “Left Overs” is born from this stark contrast: on the one hand a speechless photograph/still life, on the other hand a poem, which narrates memories related to those same objects depicted, unfolding in a fragmentary narrative that suggests the objects’ autonomy, agency, life.
Photo by © Jacopo A. Colarossi
A forest of heterogeneous objects is the backdrop to two leopard thrones once basic furnishing elements of a large tropical theme kitsch salon with green curtains with printed wide leaves and numerous animal statues and glass tables and plant pots and bouquets of fresh flowers while on the ground there was a huge white synthetic fleece rug that was very different from the trivial carpet onto which the glorious armchairs stand now arranged on a dummy plane made of tables that makes up one of the three levels of the large room emphasizing the topographic qualities of the forest-space over which fly common examples of wicker chairs along with a huge coffin-trunk that lays on a black column stem while a bush of fake plants and shelves is the backdrop to a bunch of pink and blue flower pots that are close to the glorious couple which with their strong aesthetic character push on the back chairs and books and televisions all different but basically the same creating a nearly homogeneous dark background that resembles a cliff with small wild plants against which stands the synthetic leopard print decoration of the kings of the auction storage.
Photo by © Jacopo A. Colarossi
A story
The God
Of the Art
Purchased
In the street
Serially produced
Once carefully disposed
Is now
Domesticated
Over shelves
Unowned
Hallowing
Its true nature lost while
Bright
Decorations and
Low cost
Colorful
Porcelain
Furnishings
Dishes and pots
Increase in value
As they are fashionable items
Putting aside
Accumulated
Beauty
In time.
Photo by © Jacopo A. Colarossi
The Beatles play
A suspended piano,
Whilst the float
Of their yellow submarine
Hangs on the edge of an imaginary vessel.
At the cafe’s exit,
Inside the main hall,
An elegant library
Encloses a collection
Of science books.
As carriages of a freight train
Crossing continents,
A long line of libraries and vitrines
Carry ornaments and souvenirs
From the far east.
