“You know, even stones change shape in time,Willingly they compromise.
And the sacrifice is mine
For your eyes,
‘Cause the feeling you bring home
Is comfort in the coldest stone.
Like a wish I go, I go
To be yours, oh…
Remember the way to the old town,
So-oh, oh, oh.
Clear as the call from the fair ground,
So-oh, oh, oh.
Oh, rip my lace to your shape now.
So-oh, oh, oh.
I’ll ask you for more of what you’ve found,
So-oh, oh, oh.
And the union is carved
From stone that is not to be halved.
And the imprints of the blood
Call this love.
And I join you in your walls,
We realise our own faults,
And as hearts we go, we go,
Humbled, oh…
Oh, remember the way to the old town,
So-oh, oh, oh.
Clear as the call from the fair ground,
So-oh, oh, oh.
Oh, rip my lace to your shape now.
So-oh, oh, oh.
I’ll ask you for more of what you’ve found,
So-oh, oh, oh.”
[ Union Stone – Phildel ]
Sixth work from The Disappearance Of The Girl.
Union Stone was another of those elusive songs. It is a really beautiful portrayal of mutual love and being in a relationship (which per se isn’t of much help to me), but told in a very metaphorical, abstract way. The only concrete symbolism is the stone, which isn’t visually striking when it comes to representing love. So yeah, I basically had to try to clutch at straws for a long time before I could figure it out. And truth be told, I did mainly because a friend of mine offered to give Luisa and me a lift to the Rocca of Monfalcone, an old limestone fortress in Monfalcone, not far from Trieste.
Once I had a possible location, I decided to go for an equally metaphorical representation of the subject putting three of the key words into the image: the eponymous stone, the walls from the second verse and the sacrifice from the first. I basically portray Luisa in the act of sacrificing her security and pride, represented by the fortress, by raising a stone from its walls towards the viewer as an offering, allowing them into her emotional sphere. Thus, the solemn expression and very static, symmetrical composition. Although I feared it might seem pulled up by the hair, I think it fits the mood of the song which, while being quite gentle, has a solemn touch to it.
Despite the photo looking quite simple, it actually required a bunch of postproduction due to the many ugly antennae standing atop the fortress and a couple of touristic signs that ruined the view. Yeah, I cheated, but there was no way for me to avoid them altogether without screwing the geometry of the photo, so it had to be done. Sorry purists, there’s no place for that stuff in my idealised world.
Union Stone was another of those elusive songs. It is a really beautiful portrayal of mutual love and being in a relationship (which per se isn’t of much help to me), but told in a very metaphorical, abstract way. The only concrete symbolism is the stone, which isn’t visually striking when it comes to representing love. So yeah, I basically had to try to clutch at straws for a long time before I could figure it out. And truth be told, I did mainly because a friend of mine offered to give Luisa and me a lift to the Rocca of Monfalcone, an old limestone fortress in Monfalcone, not far from Trieste.
Once I had a possible location, I decided to go for an equally metaphorical representation of the subject putting three of the key words into the image: the eponymous stone, the walls from the second verse and the sacrifice from the first. I basically portray Luisa in the act of sacrificing her security and pride, represented by the fortress, by raising a stone from its walls towards the viewer as an offering, allowing them into her emotional sphere. Thus, the solemn expression and very static, symmetrical composition. Although I feared it might seem pulled up by the hair, I think it fits the mood of the song which, while being quite gentle, has a solemn touch to it.
Despite the photo looking quite simple, it actually required a bunch of postproduction due to the many ugly antennae standing atop the fortress and a couple of touristic signs that ruined the view. Yeah, I cheated, but there was no way for me to avoid them altogether without screwing the geometry of the photo, so it had to be done. Sorry purists, there’s no place for that stuff in my idealised world.
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