Appassionato: The Instruments Project
This work is about exploring the relationship between a musician, their instrument and their music. The ability to make an inanimate object create a sound that both expresses feeling and evokes emotion in a listener is incredibly powerful.
Along with obvious technical skill, a musician needs to be acutely aware of an instruments range and limitations, and be able to tap into their own emotional range to use it as a form of expression. This is gained from hours of time familiarising with the anatomy of the instrument to understand its response to each caress.
This body of work is a ‘work in progress’ which will feature instruments on their own and being played by a musician. This work aims to capture the closeness between musician and their instrument. The tight, intimate close ups in the imagery is not dissimilar to what a curious inamorata would see when playfully exploring her lovers body.
What adds depth to this project is the inherent belief that the camera is also an instrument and the imagery is an emotional response to the music. There is a seductive dynamic between musician, instrument, photographer and camera that it is almost as complicated as a love triangle.
