Ion Zupcu’s longtime obsession with the music of Philip Glass has inspired Zupcu to imagine his music in visual form. Each photograph in his newest series “Etudes on Glass” started with a line drawing; then Zupcu considered the relationships between line, space, form, light, color, and proportion. The resulting paper sculptures were constructed as still lives in his studio and photographed utilizing a traditional set-up–camera, tripod, and natural light.
“Moving beyond the structure to the emotive, melancholic nature of Philip Glass’s music, the color blue was chosen as the consistent tonal background upon which the bright colors of the foreground objects are contrasted. And, once the contrast between the foreground and background was determined, I was free to construct, engage and let my creative intuition go.’’
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