La Viola d'Inverno by giulband
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Image inspired by a beautiful song by an Italian musician (Roberto Vecchioni).
It's called "La Viola d'Inverno" I report below part with translation I hope not too disastrous. I suggest to those who are interested to find on google the entire text.
She will come when I sleep or dream,
Or piss or while I'm driving,
The hear well while playing disarray,
And I will not confuse it with anything,
Because it sounds damned eternal:
The matter is you hear it only that once
The viola of winter.
The question is that you are never prepared,
and that always happens to others,
Living in after all is obvious
Do not you imagine that you never enough
It always stays behind a speech
It always stays behind remorse ...
in original language :
Arriverà che dormo o sogno,
O piscio o mentre sto guidando,
La sentirò benissimo suonare mentre sbando,
E non potrò confonderla con niente,
Perché ha un suono maledettamente eterno:
E poi si sente quella volta sola
La viola d'inverno.
Bello è che non sei mai preparato,
Che tanto capita sempre agli altri,
Vivere in fondo è scontato
Che non t'immagini mai che basti
E resta indietro sempre un discorso
E resta indietro sempre un rimorso...
Comments (76)
Hendesse
Outstanding and very symbolic composition. Excellent work!
moochagoo
Memento mori !!! Good work.
rhol_figament
Excellent work G-Band!
rajib
Very creative as you always are ! Impressive.
MartiniquePL
Very good illustration of charming song and nostalgic poetry. Thank You :)
ia-du-lin
wonderful scene and characters
romangirl
Marvelous scene!
Glendaw
Amazing lyrics and awesome visual !
Outstanding realization !
QuickR
Wonderful image. You did amazingly well with this very dense content which could easily get muddled or out of control, but not for you.
figharo
And yet, I'm so attracted to winter, well done!
Domi48
No comment...
miwi
Play the song of death;excellent image,love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anahata.c
I read a few translations of this, on the web, including one with the original song. (It's a haunting, beautiful song.) I don't fully understand the translation---for which I apologize. But it seems like the singer is singing about a love which comes to him and haunts him, and even reminds him of his own death. And a love who will leave him...And maybe this "love" is actually fate itself, or death. The song seems to be about a mysterious "call," a mysterious call that comes to all of us, maybe from the depths of our lives. (By "call" I mean a call from the soul, even a chiamata, though not necessarily religious.) And it's entrancing and beautiful, but also mysterious. And one can 'lose' themselves in it. This is what I take from the poem, in translation. I'm sorry I don't know your beautiful language better: I would understand the song better, if I was intimate with Italiano.
But I get the "gist" of it. And your image looks like death calling on humans. Or maybe it's reminding all humans that they're mortal, no matter what they do. "E resta indietro sempre un discorso/E resta indietro sempre un rimorso..." The people in your image are from many cultures and lands. It's a "global" gathering of people. And they're crammed-in by those skulls. And by the skeleton in front of them. And by books, which seem to represent human knowledge---which, after all, cannot keep death away, either. Though it can help us find eternal beauty...(You've used old books before. You often use books in old leather binding: They're works of art, and they look old and venerable.)
The skeleton---the violist---is wrapped in a thin veil. (Very well done: Transparent veils aren't easy to do!) And she plays a viola---you obviously know the difference between a viola and a violin: The viola is larger (and deeper). And you've contrasted the deep brown viola from her bony hands---because you made her hands bright white, and you made the bridge of the viola bright white. That's fine contrast. And the violist's eyes have some kind of "film" over them. Some veil. Perhaps glass of some kind...It's a brilliant conception.
And the violist is the only "white" creature here: The humans are clearly of many colors and backgrounds. And they're crammed together; and they seem to be entranced by the music, "pulled" to it, "called" to it. Maybe they've been awakened from their slumber, maybe they've been made aware of not only their own mortality, but of the eternal strands of music that float around them everyday. The music of the soul. It's a magical image. The woman on the top, left, seems to be called to another "world" by the viola music.
This is composed like a Breughel painting. You've created "crammed" compositions before, and they're always powerful. This is like a scene from Dante. Maybe Purgatorio. For all the melancholy of the words and of your image, there's hope in your image. The viola brings music to the winter. I see it that way, at least. (I'm a musician, so it's hard for me to feel emptiness from a viola solo.)
Beautifully done and conceived. And you "manage" your artistic elements quite well: Does that translate? I mean, you know how to place people and objects in your images; ie, how to crowd them, how to light and shade them, etc: You "manage" them well. I hope that translates well. Another consummate image from you, Giuliano.
Cgaynor
It is interesting that different characters have various reactions to the song. Very fine image!
me195
Great job as always.
Pitch_Black
Excellent