Welcome to
Desillusion Utopia.
An annual book by Sebastien J. Zanella that grants access to a private room where I gather what feeds my work, my thinking, and my way of living.
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This space is open to those who have walked with me through workshops or mentorships,
and to those who own the latest edition of the book, for which an access code was provided.
Desillusion Utopia Attempt 1
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Desillusion UTOPIA is a long term artistic project shaped by the road, encounters, and time spent outside the center.
It is built around photography, writing, and film, but its core is not a medium.
Its core is a way of living.
Walking, observing, staying present, and paying attention to those who exist at the margins.The project documents outsiders, wanderers, and free spirits.
Not as subjects to be explained, but as lives to be shared, moments to walk alongside.Desillusion UTOPIA is not about reaching a destination.
It is about staying in motion.
Letting life shape the work, and the work remain open, unfinished, alive.Each book is a trace of this ongoing research.
Each fragment shared beyond the book continues the same path. -
Desillusion Utopia is a large format art book born from years on the road.
It gathers photographs texts and fragments shaped by travel light encounters and inner shifts.
More than a document of places it is a reflection on how the world transforms us when we allow ourselves to slow down and listen.This book is not about what I saw.
It is about what the journey did to me.
An invitation to make life itself a form of poetry. 🥀 -
Latest entries available through the book access.
These are pieces from the road.
Moments, reflections, and fragments of an ongoing work.