DIGIMAG 70 - DECEMBER 2011 / JANUARY 2012

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a link that is not created in the

instrument with which to create and at that moment in my hands there were only a pajamas, an iPhone and hope to come back to life.

photograph taken, but developed / printed elsewhere.

I decided to put on my pajamas, and, being in one of those situations, when even the smallest things seem important, I started using an application created to lay out posters for events, and I documented the experience of assembling images and writings. Having a beginning and an end (thankfully positive) and a specific topic, I can understand how now it may be considered a “project”.

Silvia Scaravaggi: In 2011 you carried out a project built as a blog Chemoterapy update

Silvia Scaravaggi: If the project is accidental, the process isn’t. In many cases you’re continuing the “series”, I mean for example, Shapes and Lines that are part of the section Silence. In this, processuality plays a leading role.

( http://chemotherapyupdate.tumblr.c om). I would like to talk about it, because I think it has extremely effective and interesting contents as a strategy for rejection of a disconsolate / comforting experience.

Filippo Minelli: The process is something that interests me greatly because it offers a chance to grasp the truth and completeness in the various nuances of a creation, instead of presenting an object or idea as the only possibility. In Shapes (a series of Silence, begun in 2010, which is based on the visualization of colored gases in nature) the process becomes also a technical and complex matter because you have to know how to choose the weather, try to predict the changes or take a moment to get the

Filippo Minelli: Chemotherapy Update actually was simply a blog to update my relatives, friends and all the people that I could not see for months, on the status of a tumour that I discovered to have in 2010. It was a therapeutic way to keep the brain busy with funny things, not to fall into the abyss of self pity or in religious comfort so in vogue among the onco-haematological party. As I said I do not want a privileged

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