2024 – Serramonacesca, Village View, Italy

I liked being in Serramonacesca for the summer

Serramonacesca is where I came from
for many years I did not know
for some years now it leads me back to my roots

they return the love I used to feel
bring witch-craft into my life
and introduce me to the child I could have been

it is where I can look into eyes that saw my grandparents eyes
(and greet my grandmother through them)
it is where I listen to stories that teach me that there is still something good in this most paradoxical of all times

Serramonacesca, you bring sparkling magic into my life and work, you wake me up, you narrate of and by more or less displaced stones and animals, you gift me the sea, the mountains the stillness to listen to them