Il sonno dei boschi

2022, 350×300 cm, PLA filament on tulle veil, Torino

Il sonno dei boschi seeks to reflect on the trace of trees, on how, once, in place of the buildings we see today, there stretched vast expanses of forest, inhabited by a multitude of animal species that, like the trees themselves, have now disappeared.

The work attempts to imagine the trace of a time, past, or perhaps yet to come, made not of buildings, houses, and cars, but of simple trees. Here, like mirages, appear two or three vigorous trees, drawn with a bold black line, solid enough to stand out against the reality behind them. Layers of perception and thought overlap: now the trees prevail over the palaces, now the opposite. It is a continuous dialogue and confrontation, where the absurd conflict between the natural and the artificial emerges; a reflection on humanity’s ignorance of its own being and of its arboreal origins, forgotten in favor of the narcissistic cult of anthropic creation.

Through its superimposition, the work reveals two realities, one real, the other possible. It seeks to recover the essence of things before the artificial roar, and to imagine, perhaps, a future time of respect and balance:
a time when the woods will awaken, lifted from that torpor, from that limbo where humankind has confined them for too many years, and will once again be allowed to teach us how to exist.