Quètu | Alicudi
Alicudi / Italy
During the lockdown I’ve been living the domestic space as a shelter where I could be safe, far from the pandemic, but also as a place that kept me away from the rest of the world.
That’s how I started fantasying on an island where houses are built in between the sky and the sea and the everyday life is comfortably quiet, far away from the loud and super busy city, where Mother Nature rules the hands of time with her giving and depriving.
On this island everything takes us back to a time far away, where the old treasures are safe, a real open air museum where every wall and path are the testament of the effort of all the people that used to live there and a celebration of their special relationship with the land that accommodates them.
The house, on this island, is the place of memories in which you can feel safe without being constrained, where you are free to lean out over the infinite and that takes you back to the holiday season and to the times of lightheartedness.
This is my happy place where I felt free to gather my thoughts and at the same time to explore new territories without having to move from the safety of my home.
These images are the portrait of everyday life on an island that appears to be a sanctuary where you can set yourself free from the unnecessary sparkle and live a more simple and authentic life.
In this place, time expands and you can uncover the beauty in the small things: as the paint peeling off the old walls from the sea breeze, drawing intricate geometries, as the handpainted majolica tiles, as the shadows drawn by the sun filtering through the bamboo canopy, as the blue window framing the sea.
Moments and actions are crystallised into the objects that are pictured just before or right after the human presence, so no one is there really, and whoever looks at those images can pretend to be there, living this journey.
Right in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Alicudi is part of the Sicilian islands of Eolie. Among the seven islands, Alicudi is known for being the wildest one, which has also preserved its volcanic nature. It is, in fact, mostly unchanged despite the passage of time, not affected by the tourist flow.
Whoever takes into consideration the idea to explore this island knows exactly that is going to dive into the past, by renouncing to any kind of comfort and embracing a more authentic way of living closely with nature.
During the lockdown I’ve been living the domestic space as a shelter where I could be safe, far from the pandemic, but also as a place that kept me away from the rest of the world.That’s how I started fantasying on an island where houses are built in between the sky and the sea and the everyday life is comfortably quiet, far away from the loud and super busy city, where Mother Nature rules the hands of time with her giving and depriving.On this island everything takes us back to a...
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