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Primary Energy

Primordium is the Latin word of origin of Universe; it also suggests the origin of creative process. For me, it is a long-term investigation into the elemental origins of form.

In Primordium, Light, Matter and Water are observed not as symbols but as physical phenomena.
Beginning with Galaxies - - images born from macrophotographic observations through which cosmic structures emerge - -  the research continued along different paths: Mass & Energy, observing marine energies, and Defrost, exploring the transformations of water and life in a changing climate.

Across film and digital photography, I trace how matter organizes itself — from the vast to the minute — revealing recurring patterns of force and structure.

On Time and Matter
 

                       Primary Energy 

I photograph the moment matter begins to change.

Ice softens.
Water shifts.
Surface breaks.

I do not compose.
I wait until form starts to surrender.

The image exists only in that passage —
a state that cannot return.

Abstract fine art photograph of rocks beneath transparent seawater revealing light, matter and movement, introducing the Mass&Energy Project .

Mass & Energy 

Giuseppe Potente
Fine Art Photography

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