Material: Burl olive wood

Size: 31,5 x 31,5 x 22,5 cm

This piece belongs to the series ROOTS I am still working on, dedicated to those forms belonging to the Greek and Latin tradition. I decided to explore this huge heritage to understand where the shapes that belong to me the most come from. For the project I also chose to use exclusively olive roots from my homeland that is where I came back to live in 2020.

The name ROOTS groups four different meanings, the ancient tradition, my homeland, my inner belonging and the roots of the trees themselves.

I usually come across the material along the fields of olive trees where the owners have decided for various reasons to remove these wonderful trees. Often the scenario I find myself in front of is quite similar, the atmosphere I breathe the same, a mix of feelings between the discovery and the sadness that comes to me walking through the rubble of the barbarism that has taken place and that those fallen trees testify. What I feel is the responsibility to denounce what I have lived and try to give these monuments of time their lives back through my own aesthetic vision, preserving as much as possible the inner nature of the root itself, working with it through a constant dialogue during all processing phases.