breaks/kintsugi

takes stock of the damages we humans have caused to the envinronment, even the mountains, which seemed to be so strong and reassuring not long ago. I show the

wounds produced by millennial evolution and our own doing by emphasising breaks we see in rocks, at times enlarging them, and embossing them in the printing phase.

The embossments and the printing method I chose allowed me to go beyond the bi-dimensional character of photography. I had the electronic files engraved on a polymeric

base; I then inked the plate and printed the image with a traditional press. I printed a second version of the same image, in which the breaks have been filled with

fragments of stone, in an attempt to reproduce the practice of Kintsugi, which repairs breaks without hiding the scars left on the objects.

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