"Beigua Natural Park"
Studies on a liminal perspective.
The liminal nature of the Beigua Park derives not from imagination alone, but from its own geographic and geological identity: a territory suspended between sea and mountains, a watershed between the Ligurian Alps and the Apennines, where winds and currents generate shifting, rarefied atmospheres.
Since the Neolithic, these mountains were considered sacred. The rock engravings and the numerous amulets fashioned from its stones bear witness to a deep and ancient bond between this territory and a symbolic, ritual dimension.
Ancient and magnetic, the ophiolites enter into dialogue with the vast beech forests, in a continual tension between stone and vegetal life.
Castaneda called "places of power" those sites capable of opening rifts in perception, where reality seems to crack for an instant and become a threshold into mysterious worlds.
The photographs portray these brief alterations: encounters in which rocks, trees, and natural forms appear to charge themselves with ambiguous presences, as if the landscape were still manifesting that ancient power.
"A silence broken
by the seeping of the earth,
which makes itself new
every winter
now sodden
now white
now green and yellow
dry
like the sound
of when it breaks
only to sing at last
pregnant
by the spring sun."
"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."
"On the slopes,
an echo
a presence
the valley.
Bare
I turn toward that clearing.
There are no shelters
in the Ligurian woods."
A short path
where bare forms
reveal a gentle torpor,
a sleep
in which man is only an idea.
Calmly,
the stones watch me
it's the nature of these woods.
