Lavazza’s 2019 calendar Good To Earth
On July 2018, I took part to the Lavazza’s 2019 calendar “Good To Earth”. The aim of the project was to give visibility, through visual arts and photography, to the places of the world where human intervention had a positive impact on the environment. I was invited to go to Phetchaburi, a small town in Thailand, where a project of reforestation has taken place in the last decades.
My artwork, Dendrocronologica, is a site specific installation, painted in oils on glass, showing a sexually fluid human being growing up at different stages of growth, from the soil, to show the direct relationship that ties humanity to nature. As a tendentially selfish species, we tend to forget the importance of nature, so only the fully developed figure has open eyes, representing a deeper state of awareness.
The piece was painted during ten days in a small studio in Bangkok, and was then installed in the forest to be photographed by Ami Vitale, and eventually removed and shipped back to Italy to be part of Lavazza’s collection.
