I believe landscapes, especially natural ones, to be the whole of different elements coexisting in the same place.
A Gestalt of interacting parts where if one element changes the others necessarily and inevitably change too. Despite pollution and human interference, nature has an extraordinary ability to rewild itself, while maintaining a memory rich of culture. My work focuses on that “sample of landscape” that cannot be perceived by the observer at a first glance, but that appears only later, when physical factors intervene leaving a trace that reveals new information. Human beings must be guardians of biodiversity, and most of all, of the identity of landscape, restoring what they have modified over the years. Restoring natural ecological processes aims at recovering the original landscape, where nature continues its process of evolution and metamorphosis. Like a geologist, I examine the composition of the ground surface.
I am fascinated by its formation and transformation processes, the sign of time and weather detectable on its layers, its morphology, the interaction between endogenic (magmatism and volcanism) and exogenic processes (sediment transport, deposition and erosion) that have modified and keep modifying landscapes. Like an archeologist, I try to penetrate in depth in the layers of time, uncovering forms of life which have left valuable traces. I study them, rework them, record them and archive them. In the attempt of making them survive over time, I take care of them to protect them from my own species. I present a landscape inspired by their testimony.

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“In every landscape there is a crucial relation between the visible and the invisible, and in our approach, we must watch deeply and know how to look, which also means knowing how to interpret”. Ezio Raimondi