Interview with Artist: Fabio Meschini

Borderlight (Josephine)

How does photography influence your overall design? What is its role in your workflow?

Many borderlight pictures come from study sketches: when coming to the shooting stage, any detail was already planned and prepared sometimes months in advance so the shooting has been a mere execution of a predefined workflow, no improvisation this time.

Borderlight (Czarina)

Your Borderlight series is very interesting. How did you come up with the concept for this series?

it is strictly biography: the first 4 “main” pictures are allegories of real persons I know, the remaining 10 are personifications of feelings I lived in person or that I’ve seen in other people. from the reactions I see in other people’s faces, seems many know that persons or feelings. others think that I hate women. to those I usually answer that not just because they see a pair of tits what they see is necessarily a woman.

Borderlight

What was your experience like working on this series (Borderlight)?

exciting, mostly because it’s the first work that exactly came out as it was in my mind, without compromises: took a lot of time, drawing sketches, trying compositions, building the props and finding the right model for the shots. as an example, the brain for “Blatta” comes from several stitched shots of a real lamb brain got at a supermarket.

Borderlight (Blatta)

What keeps you busy now? Can you tell us more about your current projects?

after many years working with digital some time ago I started feeling the need for more manual work, probably also borderlight, with so many props built by hand was a sign. since march of this year I’m challenging myself with screenprinting and I love it: it brings back into my hand my first love for graphic design.