Tony Zaza

STATEMENT

My work originates from a desire to freeze emotion, extracting the passionate component of the physical world. Black and White Infrared, the medium I’ve worked with for 50 years does something else. I’ve tried to challenge and reinterpret the medium. This film which is no longer manufactured, renders the Real world in terms of invisible light and, therefore, records a partially unseen reality. The magical and spiritual aspects of the subject are only imagined because the unseen can only be felt. The spectator is forced to stop looking and start feeling the Form. Like a ship on the open sea, my work confronts new emotional obstacles and becomes a physical adaptation to changes in my wellbeing. When the sea is calm and sunny, I’m working in black & white infrared film, when the seas get turbulent, I go back to drawing. When alone, I paint. It is solitary, so the quarantine is a soothing match and an inspiration to evoke things distant from me.The role of the creative process is to cast out uniformity, evoke the world of spirit, explore alternative world views. I search for new forms, and, a form without feeling is a failure.