“When I die and they lay me to rest / Gonna go to the place that's the best (…) That's where I'm gonna go when I die / When I die and they lay me to rest / Gonna go to the place that's the best” - “Spirit in the sky”, Norman Greenbaum (1969) Look at the sky. Now and then you do, we all do, and sometimes we see the sky. That is, in one moment you see it is actually there and it catches your mind, but there might be even something more, and it is certainly something you cannot reach out and touch. The song “Spirit in the sky” popped into Alex’s mind one day, he whipped his camera from his pocket and instinctively took aim and shot at the sky. Just one. It was hit or miss. And it hit. The Tuscan sky is one of the most compelling in the world: often of a rare blue and full of clouds so you find yourself searching for a shape of something known. This was the very moment when this series of photos was born: if that first single shot was good, then a series would follow, because it took meaning. Was it a spirtual inspiration? Religious? It didn’t really matter. The beauty of the sky is there and elevation of the mind is possible, if you look at it and pay a little attention. Only for Alex, clouds never have a shape. If they had one, they would be within reach. Whilst the sky is the hope of something more, that is the best part. And you can never touch a hope…  (More) ...