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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