This series began unexpectedly. While driving, I noticed newly installed power lines cutting clean, silvery paths through a deep blue sky. Their precision and contrast felt impossible to ignore.

At first, I focused only on the lines themselves. Gradually, wooden poles and steel towers entered the frame, and the work expanded from simple arrangements to more complex structures. The process echoed early exercises from my art school years in Italy, where geometry and structure were central.

Over time, the project became less about definitions and more about attention. Lines began to suggest tension, balance, distance, or stillness depending on how they interacted within the frame.

Paul Klee once wrote, “A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
That idea stayed with me.

This work reminded me that structure matters, but feeling matters more. In the end, I try to let intuition lead and allow meaning to remain open—both for myself and for the viewer.

© 2022 Gaetano Antonini