The works are born from a project/exhibition titled "The Game of Archetypes, Act One." Archetypes are universal patterns of behavior derived from human experience throughout all of history, connected to the collective unconscious, which is the tendency to perceive reality in common forms or symbols. This explains why there are structural analogies among different cultures. According to Carl Jung, the collective unconscious represents a universal psychic container containing the ancestral figures of the 12 archetypes.
"The Innocent," "The Magician," and "The Lover" are three works, as well as the three archetypes to which Luisa Valeriani paid homage by reinterpreting them through her vision. All three are developed with a common concept: they are photos taken near a body of water where the reflection of one's own "self" represents the archetype that comes into contact with the individual's "ego."
In "The Innocent," the concept of the fall is highlighted. In fact, if the innocent does not fall, they do not have the opportunity to know the world in all its aspects and thus become independent and autonomous.
Some characteristics such as youthfulness, lightness, purity, escape from reality, and the rejection of boundaries are represented through an unconscious child who allows themselves to fall from the clouds to fly on the wings of a heron.
