Luca Staccioli

Falling flowers stem from a video created by extracting frames from 3D software, which were used in a failed attempt to generate a photogrammetric map of a landscape fragment. Photogrammetric images, typically employed for landscape monitoring or territorial mapping, in Falling flowers lose their effectiveness and function, becoming distorted and almost abstract, forming the first layer of the video. They blend with found web images of construction sites, advertisements of perfect teeth, and shuttles venturing into space.

Like a moving fresco or a painting created with the glazing technique, animated digital scans of floral decorations from toilet paper accumulate and overlap. Joyful yet fragile images of nature—conventional and functional—attempt to regain life. They fall from top to bottom, eventually filling the entire projection field.