_+ Impressions

IMPRESSIONS
12 tiles of crude, unfired clay, 70×90 cm
2015

Within the space there are clay monolyths with the impressions of those objects that once came into contact with this place and that today are the only surviving witnesses. They hold within themselves memories that they retell to me in part through anecdotes of their youth (Porta aperta bada ladri).
The form is that of bricks that used to be made by hand, there within the estate, thanks to a natural clay pit that I identified through the stories of the older people I met during my residency. They pointed out to me more or less where to look in the woods in order to find the material with which to make my bricks.
Technically then, I decided to use the crude clay without removing its impurities because these, too, are part of the history of the place; the dust, the shells, and the fossils come directly from an era when Certaldo was covered by the sea, roughly 5 million years ago, and they mix with the memories of the figures in my work. Inside the wine cellar where the vats are found, I decided to install a video along the stairs in order to provide viewers with a sensory connotation.