Poetic Walk

Impossible Anastomoses

In an area dedicated to the philosopher abbot Gioacchino da Fiore, there is an opportunity to grapple with the urgency of words. It is a journey of sound poetry that does not isolate—despite yearning for solitary achievement—but rather reconciles and reconnects us with the environmental and human context in which we move and confront ourselves without filters, driven by conceptual references and visual and auditory suggestions.

Literally a journey, a physical and psychological shift, both exterior and extremely intimate, towards a spiral of apple trees that represents the form, the concrete manifestation of the Symbol.

This is a gradual and temporary distancing from the chaotic life of consumption and a descent into a portion of wild, unspoiled nature to be enjoyed along the bank of a small stream, traversing a rich and unique biodiversity. Notably, there is an example of impossible anastomosis between an alder and a elderberry, which gives the project its title.

Brief and decisive are the insights on Gioacchino da Fiore, more synthetic than analytical. Then, there is the humanity we have lost along the consuming axis of time, the race, step by step, echo by echo, to recover its meaning. It is a journey that here takes on an inversive function..