"Beigua Natural Park"
Studies on a liminal condition.
"And so you will tell the stones the stories of the trees, and the trees the stories of the stones.
Thus you will know the stories of men, who carved the earth in honor of that terrible god, to whom they dedicated the name of the highest mountain."
Started in 2023, the project gathers a selection of images from the Parco del Beigua, Liguria's largest protected area, explored here as a place of transition. The park's liminal nature seems written into the land itself: born from an ancient seabed, it has become a wooded mountain, facing the sea and reaching toward the inland Alps.
This duality is reflected in the worldview of the peoples who inhabited it over millennia, attested by a network of rock engravings and by the connection to an ancient pre-Roman deity, Bego or Baigorix, whose meaning remains open to interpretation.
My gaze enters into dialogue with the animist worldview of these ancient peoples, filtered through a contemporary sensibility built on suggestion. Each element of the landscape takes on an almost symbolic weight, evoking a sense of passage and liminality that runs through the whole area.
"On the slopes,
an echo
a presence
the valley.
Bare
I turn toward that clearing.
There are no shelters
in the Ligurian woods."
"I keep nothing
of when
I watched the mists
migrate.
In the bath
of damp thoughts
I reach out my hand,
but every finger
is illusion."
"A path
leads
among bare forms
and sacred beasts,
leads
where man
is but an idea.
Placid,
the stones watch me,
it is typical of these woods."
