NOW YOU CAN REST [APRIL]

“Now you can rest” talks about a place where both the living world and the dead world seem to find peace. There is no alive presence of human beings, but their memories are still in the air, mixed with nature. An ancient lake. A little black church. White crosses. Sleeping skulls. Abandoned farming implements. Blades of grass growing in the wind. Animals looking at the infinite. Clouds and rain. Human beings pass away, while nature continues its circle. Images and words can suggest a wide and contrasting range of feelings and states of mind, from melancholy to peace, from cinism to disillusion, from love to compassion, from restlessness to rest. Some captions are verses from the poem “The Waste Land”, by T.S.Eliot. Images represent West Iceland. “Now you can rest” is one of the stories from the main project “Stories From Planet Earth”. On one side, it's a lyric dedicated to the beauty of the world and to travelling, losing and finding ourselves in the embrace of the wild, mainly in the North. On the other side, it's a testament to the environment, that, due to several factors, is rapidly modifying its peculiar characteristics. Travelling can of course be a general metaphor of managing changes, that nowadays are occuring in the world at multiple levels: ecology, society, health, safety, history, economy, up to our psychological and personal level. The whole project starts from landscape and travel photography, but it moves to a more intimate dimension of visual storytelling in which images, words, emotions, are all in one, in order to generate both rational thoughts and little poetical suggestions in everyone of us. We live our existence among transitions bigger than us. And we can look, think, act with respect, responsability and awareness of ourselves and our world.