They've gone

The gaze of a traveller, who would like to immerse himself in the evocative atmosphere of the lower Piave, would be captured after a few kilometers by the discreet presence, in the landscape, of unusual imposing buildings integrated with unexpected material naturalness in the countryside. These are the so-called “case coloniche”. This ends up creating in his mind, as he progresses through these places, day after day, a sort of sensation of an awaited appointment. I lived this experience in an emotionally intense way, which went beyond documentary intent. What I have tried to tell, "illustrating" and therefore inserting a strong interpretative component, is a story, one of the many stories hidden in these border areas between land and water. As an astonished and curious observer, as I felt throughout this slow journey of discovery, I have tried to give new life to this apparently "forgotten" landscape, sometimes also using my imagination, but more often trying to grasp its coy poetry , which I wanted to try to bring out. Past lives can be guessed inside and around these monuments of a peasant reality, now extinct. Stone dinosaurs mark the territory, almost a warning not to forget those who have rejoiced, suffered and worked hard and industriously here. I therefore created images that could be defined as lively, in which however the patina of time maintains its discreet, unmistakable presence.