- The document provides information about the author's NYC-Work conceptual art project created between 2000-2004 in New York City, a period including before, during, and after 9/11. - The author developed a "new visual semiotics concept" and innovative method for "portrait[ing] the Mankind’s things" through photographs taken in NYC, creating "a different art" that prominent art and culture figures said configured "a turning point." - The NYC-Work project is described as portraying "universally recognizable" core values and meanings of the past, present, and future through "a new point of view" and "easily interpretable unique language."

1. >A brief description of the NYC-Work to give you some more
information.
*** - A FUNDAMENTAL DIGRESSION-***
*** You must know I don't like to “talk”, to describe my work: so , in
drawing up this post, I will use "concepts, digressions, definitions”,
already having been used by “Others” , in defining my NYC-Work. :
“As a DOCUMENTARY ARTIST” I am able to write about the
fundamental aspects of my work but I've always left to the
audience, the observers to judge, express opinions, give responses,
regarding my work.
>>>Forgive me if I will seem self-referential but this is not the case.
-As far as I am concerned remains for me very hard to describe my
work.
°Anyway I am going to proceed in the description.
*DURING THE THREE AND A HALF YEARS that I have been
working in New York (2000-2004), before,- during and after 9/11,a
very special historical period , I"structured","created", a"Concept-
Work"with the City as a scenario “.
§-The-New-Yorkers-Lobby-§
*** Relevant and Essential ***
°-Powerful men of Art and Culture, "Luminaries by global

2. caliber"***§**** True enlightenment already in The Olympus of the
mankind's art history”claim and believe §I have elaborated and
articulated, during those years a”new viusal-semiotics concept”
,contemplating the use of a specific technique, “pushed at it's
maximum level”to**^ stylized an image and to create , “THEY SAID”
,“A Timeless Opera ” which It touchs" extremely sensitive and
fundamental topics of the past , the present and the future.
°It seems I have “ended the old level", to create-reach “a new one”,
conceiving , by using-shifting an innovative, unconventional
method to “portrait” the Mankind’s things” : the -Level-that I have
"shaped" and “molded”, it is "designed” with an unique imagery,
made of "a matter" that is aesthetic- conceptually-philosophically
universal innovative: easily decipherable, when compared with
“the current context” of our Historical-Time.
*They told me I have developed “the Saeed” for a “ new visual full
form to portray the reality” and so I have, as a matter of the facts,
created “a different art”: configuring a turning point that"can be
made" only by using photographic tools.
°They also think that historically, the only, possible, conceivable
kind of Contemporary Art ( especially over the future shape),will be
the one “able” to portray with extreme precision and in an absolute
realistic way our Time , our present and future history.
§Through a"new point of view “ , with an easily interpretable unique
language, "Looking for my Teddy Bear-NYC-work”, they “said” ,
transmits and shows, “like a mirror”, representatives core
fundamentals values and ancestral meanings of the past , the present

3. and the future of the mankind-history: looking to the images of the
work, the interlocutor, the observer is able to universally recognize
and acknowledges “ his own reflection , the shape of himself, his
everyday life-time” .
>The rest of the contemporary art ,“made up” only with decorative
purposes, designed to impress , shock or “tranasmit” only aesthetic
pleasure to the observer etc.etc.etc. ,“it will be totally forgotten and
It will completely lose any economic and artistic value” .
-When I was “working on this” I did not have the perceptions I was
"shaping" an unique semiotics but, I was conscious, in a work in
progress, I was ”creating-marking”a precise absolute -universal
new point of reference, “subjective and objective, relative and
absolute at the same time” : an undeniable personal projection
which in Its essence It portrays a new truth maybe before unknown.
>It would appear “, I succeeded,taking ,always into consideration,
what has been"told" me by those eminent people:
***May seems unusual ,but “looking at the facts”,I shutdown the
“contemporary and classical visual art” by creating a "meme-
matrix”, the substance of which "It is made" by a multiple types,
kind of different truths, both known than unknown, merged into
one personal form of perception and projection, searching and
defining new -signifiers, unique and totally original in their content
by documenting our time, using also a sort of "Kafkian- Method”.
>°Through a research and an analysis by using an unusual
-approach in to analize“ the human-things”(often hidden under

4. different aspects and meanings), I have finally found an absolute,
objective truth and reality:one vision, one dimension, alternative
and parallel, at the same time, to that one of the human knowledge:
using a crossover and combining different "disciplines", "methods",
"cultures","philosophies", “arts”, “religions”,”techniques”... .
°°°§°°°Above all, at the end of the day , using my instincts,my
senses .
§From 2000 to 2003- so I have been “shooting” almost everyday in
Town -producing the material which later , then it would be
structured the work.
-In that "period" of time in the City “there was a very special energy”,
I would write, using an euphemism"a very dark-powerful
permanent tension on the island of Manhattan.
-The 70 percent of the work was photographed before September 11.-
*An example only to make you understand:-before 9/11, when I
showed up in ICP with"a images-line" for “an essaiment” that C.H.
( ***“R.I.P.” ***) gave to the class, he was completely astonished ,
amazed, incredulously “looking to that line”: he keeped asking me,
for a good hour, what I meant , “what I was meaning to say”(he
said “in ten years of teaching at “The MIT-NYC”, he had met very
few people like me and he wanted to help me too ... .).I am “telling”
you this because , as a matter of the facts, what “I was meaning
through that >>>line of images”, at the time without any self
knowledge, it was what happened later on in NY, the 9/11.

5. ***§***
>A POSTIL°
*The “History of The SCHOOL OF NEW YORK foresees that-to close
the circle,when you create a New Level which naturally deserve Its
feed- back, must-be brought back in New York”- to the New-
Yorkers,for reasons I rationally respect" .This is "The School of New
York”. These are “Its” Tradition that must be complied and
respected: It is the "History" (History repeats itself- in a "circular
flow of time , like a loop") which "tells" the rules.
***§***
>The first chapter of the work, under the title of "VISIONS", was
produced and shown bythe Flemish in Anterpen , they granted me
all the Museum of contemporary art of the city.
>The catalogue of that exhibition can be consulted at the library of
"The Art Institute of Chicago".
***§***
***Now the work is complete and finished.
-"THE SAME VALUE AS GOLD"-
>>>Paraphrasing ***The luminaries's words, above mentioned:
"...In essence,"the NYC-Work -it has, due to its characteristics,
implicitly and explicit,(using an euphemism...as another it could be

6. used) ,the same value as gold”.
^ They explained me, through a precise reasoning , with a wise
cognition , an unexceptionable analysis of the mechanisms of the
Art Market,- moved by the competent lobby, so:
The contemporary art history , from now to the future , because
social-economic cultural contributing factors and causes ,“will set
out- the actual specific weight" of a work like "The Black Magic NYC
Kaballa Dance Quantum Project - Looking for my Teddy Bear”
as "priceless".
°I felt really proud.
-Forgive me if I appeared self-referential,I repeat; in describing “the
work” I used words, concepts, thoughts etc.etc.etc, that -”others”-
have used about “IT”.
°Obviously to understand “the concept, the real substance ” of-the
Work-It has to be “looked, seen”:
“All the rest are just words... .”
-Thank you for your attention.
KIND REGARDS
***C.M.R.