Nicol Vizoli (Final Major)

Nicol Vizoli started her photographic project, 'An opening song' in April in 2012. It all started with a dream. then a meeting in the crowd with the first woman bird, Helene; Nicol pursued birds of prey and found herself in the hauntingly beautiful English countryside. In the presence of these wild animals that dominate the wind and the currents, the artist's soul was stirred and awakened; there is something intangible of wind and profound unity with nature. 

A long period of reflection, readings, drawings and meetings with characters that are able to understand and share her journey, or that have it in their DNA, whom then become her models. Albino, twins, rebellious souls, old and woodland travellers. 

I like both of these images and I think they are both very strong with their colour and meaning. The photographs are simple but show so much emotion and meaning within. The analogical portraits tell us about a return to life, a collective right of passage from one dimension to another, from simply surviving, to living, they explore the holders of this primordial spark, the original force of which we all come from. That first song, which is impossible not to recognise in front of the photographs so dramatic of Nicol Vizoli, crosses us like a lost memory which is suddenly found again.

Both photographs have strength. They show flaws, dirt, mysteriousness, the body covered in dust and soil that brings the signs of the cost and fatigue to be reborn, and it also shows a forfeit of that old legacy where we all belong.

The wild owl is a vital strength, it brings the photographs together nicely as a series. Nicol captures a simultaneous expressive fury and aesthetic balance to her photos which make them able to speak to every individual in a different way. Observers are encouraged to feel conscious of the warm comforting protection of the womb alongside our fragile vulnerability facing the whirling enormity of nature.