SAILS - Photography Series
Rather than attempt to ignore it or rage against it, Greg accepted the storm as inevitable and found in it a source of inspiration. Violent, inescapable, and glorious, the storm can’t be resisted but rather forces a certain kind of acceptance. The storm might even win, but there is heroic, powerful human beauty that comes out of this reality. Not giving up and celebrating beauty while the wind is howling is the highest aesthetical exercise. Harnessing this inspiration is part of any artist's instinct.
The Sails series is personal. Those sails used in each photograph come from his late father’s boat. The boat where teenage Greg and his father met in secret. In the years after his parents’ divorce, Greg was forbidden to see his father, so meeting on the boat and spending the day together was a way to avoid people who might report to his mother or other members of the religious cult she was part of. The boat and those sails were the place where Greg discovered his father after many years of the family storm. No storm is forever.
17” x 22” archival print, edition of 7, hand-signed
ROPES - Photography Series
Greg Salvatori elevates the simplest of props, a rope washed ashore, to tie himself to an ideal of classical proportion for this photo series. The rough rope touches the warm skin and makes these Greek statues come to life. Tactile and sensual, this series celebrates the complex and the contradictory, and evokes that Gordian knot of feelings we experience when we’re attracted to someone.
