SHADOW CONES

MARCO NONES – 2014

The shadow cone is a fundamental geometric element in the theory of eclipses. When a point of the Earth is immersed in the Moon’s shadow cone, a solar eclipse occurs, caused by the fire with which the three sculpted trunks were blackened and obscured.

The image of the cone evoked by Marco Nones as a metaphor for the creative condition defines the contrast between shadow and light and is characterized by a strong symbolic value that conforms to that between rational and irrational. The shadow cones thus become a sort of passage in which the individual is free to draw from the unconscious, and nature to reproduce itself without being tamed, according to changing and sometimes unpredictable logics.