Testo scritto in occasione del progetto “Lanscape Joining The Dots "- May 16, 2010
The turkey found in the fields south of the Foundation may be the starting point to describe some of the transformations that this area has gone through in last fifty years: the actions that the speculation could have produced this landscape. Not far from this tree there is still a trace of a road that would serve as a branch of Via Santa Cornelia.
Between the fifties and sixties were in fact provided for allotments of land to build residential units, building on the land had already been for agriculture with the license, however, still partly to be able to build. One of the projects of speculation involved a town with villas, swimming pools and supermarkets, just on the surface where the turkey next to the road which is still visible. The fact that this whole area of \u200b\u200babout twelve acres was purchased by a private individual in 1973 has blocked, at least on this surface, any attempt at speculation. In the late nineties a further and definitive measures, or the establishment of the Park of Veii, declared the whole area that stretches from the outskirts of Rome to an area of \u200b\u200babout fifteen thousand acres, protected area. The park is so subject to historical or archaeological link, uprooted permanently the political and even cultural immorality for many years had only planned landscape changes in the direction of speculation and the commercial exploitation of the territory. All this had also facilitated the phenomenon of so-called "spontaneous construction", or of unauthorized, which in a few years brought out entire neighborhoods.
LITTLE BIG CERRO CERRO text written on the occasion of the "Lanscape Joining The Dots" - May 16, 2010
extends Great as a field, try to extend the thought of it. A small specimen of Quercus cerris, hidden among the vegetation, offering ample room for reflection. Old themes: man's desire to organize the space, to overcome the chaos and give an appearance of nature, ancestral anxiety control and submission, can permanently alter the dynamics of nature. The shrub is the silent confirmation that we know of that attempt to regain man's land where the order has not provided that there was. It has a slender stem that is inserted into the ground like a promise, leaves that stretch to claim as their own autonomy. It could be argued that nature is always a speech "from scratch", reaffirms if itself in new ways in the new role of all the plants that constitute its vocabulary from time to time. The "pioneer species" for example, are among the most combative and generous plants: recapture the depleted soils or degraded by creating the conditions for new plant sites after which they die.
The turkey will be a small hint of a good hay but the killing of an ancient plant barley field does not worry: the nature of it regenerates itself with the same tenacity with which the farmer tries to stem it. It is a cyclical movement of the generation and bone resorption, mechanics and entropy.
The turkey becomes a possibility of writing a landscape still different from the clump of uncultivated land a fitta trama di spighe di orzo; oggi lo consideriamo un atto di resistenza nei confronti dell’uomo abituato a sovrapporre alle cose i suoi bisogni, scopi e profitti.