Paradise Pictures

Montello Foundation is a foundation dedicated to support artists who foster our understanding of nature, its fragility, and our need to protect it.
Paradise Pictures, featuring the work of artist Richard Torchia was shown at the chashama Window Space on West 37th Street in the Garment District of New York in December of 2008. The Window Space provided an ideal location on a gritty block, far away from any nature and very populated. Torchias project transformed the large storefront window of the space into screens that receive the shadow of a locust branch cast by a lamp positioned at the back of this triangular space. The locust branch he used, fell into Torchias backyard from the top of a neighbors tree during a storm. Capitalizing on this windfall, the project plays on the meaning of paradise as a walled garden. Suggesting what might be seen as a random, optical phenomenon, the installation frames the effects of urban tree shadows to reorient our sense of nature and culture, inside and outside.

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• nature
• city
• branch
• tree
• wind