The artwork represents the bond between past, present and
future and the importance that every experience lived, person met or choice
made has had along every life path.
Designed to connect with the village of Castagno d'Andrea
and its community, the installation transforms the stones of a demolished and
never rebuilt house into a living element, in which the energy flows strong,
spreading throughout the environment.
[THE COMMUNITY]
Each rock represents a local inhabitant who has lived,
lives and will live in the country.
Small or large it doesn't matter, each of them leaves
their mark on the community due to their inclinations and history.
Walking over them, you realize how precarious the balance
of the shape is and how indispensable support and mutual help are for
maintaining the form. In this unpredictable game, those who falter
are still supported by those who are at their side. This is the essence of the
word “community”.
Even the distant stones, those who have left home in
search of better living conditions or those who have found refuge, actively
contribute to the creation of the identity of the village. Precisely
from these latter that new life begin, suggesting how distance and place of birth
are irrelevant to the flow of the vital energy and the evolution of the country.
At the extremes the ropes cling trees like roots exposed, defining the importance of the
connection between the community and nature. Without the initial favorable environmental conditions, Castagno d'Andrea would never have existed.
[THE INDIVIDUAL]
At the same time, the artwork is also a reflection on the
personal life path and each rocks represents a person, an
experience or a life choice that has conditioned and formed us. Large stones are
impactful life moments; the small ones are less important but each of them
actively contributes to creating and defining who we are. Removing one would
mean making everything collapse, losing identity.
Also in this case the distant stones, which are too
unstable, are identified with what has troubled most (grief, disappointments,
traumas, fears) and which we would like to eliminate in order to live better.
But it’s precisely these rocks that are the most
important because they teach much more than happy moments and become fundamental
for supporting future personal challenges.
As for the community, it’s also important for us to keep
the connection with nature alive, holding to the trunks to find nutrition and
oxygen.
The stone mound, which protects what is no longer there,
becomes a metaphor for the quintessence of life, revealing the dormant energy
and the blood bond that unites everything (materially and immaterially) but we’re
not always aware.
