Sacred mountains have been the centrality of hundreds of cultures and mountain attention should play a central role to man contemporary attitude, if we are to respond to our natural environment.
Observing the detail within mountain folds is to key to discerning the process of geology in terms of circle of life.
To photograph it means to establish a relation with what seems inevitable yet unacceptable; man doesn’t accept nature course, nor being part of it.
The mountain’s enormous folds are witness to the modelling work of titanic forces that have acted for millions of years. Erosion has brought them to the surface layer after layer, like the pages of a great book.
Observing the mountain faces us with our ineluctable temporality, since we seem so insignificant compared to geological variations; yet, what was then a fold now is dangerous terrain.
XX century expedition are no longer remote nor dangerous, since the peril has become the very soil around us. The Inventory of landslides in Italy counts 620.808 slides to date. Witnessing the detail within the mountains terrain reflects inescapable man’s doing. e poi manca una frase conclusiva
Observing the detail within mountain folds is to key to discerning the process of geology in terms of circle of life.
To photograph it means to establish a relation with what seems inevitable yet unacceptable; man doesn’t accept nature course, nor being part of it.
The mountain’s enormous folds are witness to the modelling work of titanic forces that have acted for millions of years. Erosion has brought them to the surface layer after layer, like the pages of a great book.
Observing the mountain faces us with our ineluctable temporality, since we seem so insignificant compared to geological variations; yet, what was then a fold now is dangerous terrain.
XX century expedition are no longer remote nor dangerous, since the peril has become the very soil around us. The Inventory of landslides in Italy counts 620.808 slides to date. Witnessing the detail within the mountains terrain reflects inescapable man’s doing. e poi manca una frase conclusiva
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