{"id":91,"date":"2013-07-02T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcoristuccia.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2014-12-28T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T22:17:30","slug":"the-missing-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcoristuccia.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-missing-black\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><div id=\"attachment_215\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-215  \" alt=\"The black shining\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcoristuccia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GF2-427x640.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marcoristuccia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GF2-427x640.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.marcoristuccia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GF2.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: &#8220;The black door&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>\u00a9 Marco Ristuccia<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>While progress and evolution are donating us amazing things, conversely, as time goes by, we&#8217;re gradually deprived of something else. A kind of loss which is so slow and subtle we can&#8217;t even get aware of.<\/p>\n<p>One of my personal mournings is the death of\u00a0<em>Black,\u00a0<\/em>silently blown away by some sort of faded gray shade. It might have something to do with our unconscious fears, historically and psychologically associated with darkness. The fact is that nowadays the whole world seems to have the urge to be utterly lit up and crystal clear, like the icon of the heaven we all aspire to.<\/p>\n<p>I really miss the mystery and inscrutability of the true <em>Black<\/em>\u00a0that made us dream of what was behind,\u00a0the deep <em>Black<\/em> of the night sky which allowed us to admire the glowing stars,\u00a0the absolute <em>Black<\/em> of the venerable CRT TVs that rendered the movie experience so attractive,\u00a0and the fat <em>Black<\/em> of the silver gelatine never reached by any digital print.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While progress and evolution are donating us amazing things, conversely, as time goes by, we&#8217;re gradually deprived of something else. A kind of loss which is so slow and subtle we can&#8217;t even get aware of. One of my personal mournings is the death of\u00a0Black,\u00a0silently blown away by some sort of faded gray shade. 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