SUNRISE: Daniela Astone

SUNRISE: Daniela Astone

October 13 - November 14, 2021

SUNRISE began on the eve of the second lockdown in Italy. From a desire to escape a daily routine and find my own stimulus, not from without but from within, I sought to perceive a world anew.

The day was born differently with each sitting.

The ritual, getting up before dawn to honor life, was tiring, but it also awakened in me a new curiosity. I put question marks where, until that moment, there were only statements.

After a year in the absence of social life, I rediscovered the power of imagination. Scholars believe that the first cave paintings were a tool to facilitate the hunt, for people to imagine and realize pathways to success.

Every change, every challenge, begins by imagining how it may pass, how a new day may dawn.

Daniela Astone, Florence, 2021