Anna Di Leo

“My dreams are fireflies, pearls of a soul burning. In the darkness of the night calm blink of light fragments”. Rabindranat Tagore --- Light. One of the most full symbols in meaning and significance in the history of cultures. It is regard in Eastern philosophy as well in the Western one as the beginning of Being, of Life, and of Knowledge. Paradoxically, we are aware of the light only when it is off since without it we are no longer able to see: it is the light that reveals and discloses everything and we can’t known what is not lit. The contrast Light - Darkness is the oldest ones: on that it’is established the Chinese symbol of the Tao, which expresses the complementarity between what in light (Yin, the tangible world) and what is in shadow (Yang, the primordial void). Light is Color and Color has a nuance for each affective state of our consciousness, the positive or negative one, for each subjective motion of the soul, for every specific emotion linked to our own sensations. Color has, in his being, the polarity of the symbol of the Tao: it is Life, Joy and Wonder, Astonishement and Play, Courage, but also Melancholy and Anguish, Anger and Anxiety, Sorrow and Sadness. Through the language of color we declare our deepest feelings, and it is meaningful that as for the Voice and the Color you can use the same adjectives. In fact, as the Voice, the Color can be deep, crystalline, sweet, fresh, sheer, vibrant, calm, full, ringing, dark ... In this moment of my life the color has for me the meaning of Wonder, Game, Astonishment, Freedom, Hope in the Future: This is the message of optimism and positivity that I entrusted to the surfaces bright and colorful of my most recent digital works.