I have always loved paper, from very light facial tissues to heavy sheets of rice paper, wrapping papers and nests, pages of words, long strips of painted and written meters; then i started to make my own sheets by myself.

In the workshop “the navile” the first encounter with paper pulp and sieves, with tanks full of wonderful mush where even just dipping my arms gave me immense pleasure.

There i began to make my own sheets and include pieces prepared in advance, pages, words, colored papers, ropes and slings.

I cut these sheets open, and from there i created more papers and fragments, like speaking parts.

These sheets were hung like clothes on hangers, they formed large and small books, always words and color and the extraordinary material that when you want make folds, blisters, bumps and excrescences like buboes, but beautiful white buboes that you can open and from which other materials appear.

I engaged in a work on the Bergamo Walls after I saw some drawings for the design of the Venetian walls surrounding and protecting the city dating back to the sixteenth century.

Rather than from an architectural, landscape or engineering point of view, I wanted to represent them as a study of individual stones. Hundreds of houses, churches, cloisters and workshops had been torn down to build those walls, and the retrieved materials played their part in the constructions of the fortification.

I wanted to address the story and witness brought about by the stones. Stones are seen in their mineral nature, with their squaring and joining, color variation, different composition time, and their roughness and smoothness, corrosion and incorporations as well as traces left by men over the centuries. It is a story about eroded, mossy stones, sometimes exposed to the sun and sometimes glossy with mist. It is a story about a Venetian dream that has changed the skyline and landscape of my city – a city first surrounded by hills and then hemmed in high walls. All paper sheets composing the work are handmade by me in cotton paper.

These kneaded, lacerated, overlapping papers have been manipulated to recall stony materials. Paper is sketched and painted, and in the paper sheets I incorporated seeds, iron bits, roots and sediments left on the walls by the passing of time.

This work is composed by 5 panels, with an overall size of 2.50 x 2.60 meters.