Returns

Returns becomes a tribute to the mosaic technique and documentation on one of the many polluting materials of our geological era. Micro, meso, and macro plastics replace traditional mosaic tiles, thus becoming a source of decoration. Objects of all kinds eroded by the sea and the sun are returned to us in the form of fragments abandoned to themselves, invisible to the eye. I bend down, pick them up, observe them, and take them with me. In my eyes, you are fragments of objects that have been who knows where, that have traveled for a long time through rivers, oceans, and seas. I try to understand what you were part of, what kind of objects you were before becoming fragments, perhaps something important or simply destined for short-term use. The concept that “ugly can become beautiful” is reinforced with Restituzioni, bringing a new interpretation to an ancient decorative technique, thus becoming contemporary. Furthermore, this type of work highlights the serious problem of microplastics scattered everywhere and how the use of disposable objects does not facilitate the process of change and transition that our species must face.