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amman / digital scanning from slides 60 x 60 mm / 2002

The former Amman cotton mill is not only a topographic borderland, between the urban territory of a small city in the north-east and vast areas used by the countryside, an abandoned factory is also the emanation of a “space-time crack” as evidence of the socio-anthropological history of the place.

Different layers due to decades of renovations and rapid economic-industrial changes. An intimate place that gave time to find a balance between the thrill of discovery and the peace of being able to observe it, feel it as a refuge and mutual understanding.

During the early 2000s, together with Michele Paier, I started a search in this place.

We felt the need for a place to experience and not be observed. The only attention paid to light and composition.

Search, watch and visualize, listen to instinct, choose, position, frame, adjust, repeat, upload, snap, chemistry, time, days, watch, search, listen and find, a repetitive and circular gesture with ecological expansions of consciousness through a method that reverberates with the scientific approach. It could happen that something reveals itself after a long time. After a week or twenty years.

Time has stopped and everything is suspended, I can watch the traces of man, the time lines – now evident because they are damaged – meander in silence along the supporting structures of the complex.

Feeling alone, Michele is in some area of ​​the vast complex, he does his thing and I do mine, every now and then we cross paths, resistant to a constituted present, seeking a revealing perception.

Just because no one observes something can happen.

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