Emerged Lands

Genova, 2021-2024 This project started in 2021 shortly after the COVID outbreak. I was struggling emotionally, torn between the desire for freedom, need for solitude and Insightful exploration; the sea of Ligurian coastline become my hermitage. In front of the emerging lands of the coastline i felt immediately a sense of gratitude to my God for our redemption and for the Sacred land. Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi wrote about this project: ….What happens when the Earth emerges from the water? Genoa disappears, it is a vertical rock face, which becomes the walls of a city and Michele shows us all those little attempts to climb an impregnable fortress to reach the sky. Each structure resting on the rocks looks like a fantasy structure, a small work of art, out of time. Michele exposes the fragility of our crude attempts to ascend but also the immense creativity of man. Every sign is a testament to our resistance to the abyss and the lack of meaning. Genoa is home and Church.