Particella is a photobook about practice. There is no concert in it, no audience, no applause. The photographs stay in the hours before sound, in the rooms where a cellist and a violinist return to the same four bars until repetition changes the way they are heard. Rosin pressed into a fingertip, a worn patch on a fingerboard, a pencil mark corrected until the paper gives way.
Sequenced like a score, the book follows a pursuit that never arrives. The longer perfection is chased, the further it drifts, and what finally moves us is not the exact note but the small crack that lets something human through.
A companion booklet, Bowing, carries the project’s critical voice, a reflection on perfectionism in the way classical music is taught.
photograhs and texts
8 x 10 in
forthcoming, early 2027
