I was requested to think about a project able to involve a territory that I still did not have the good luck to see. So it was impossible to carry out if I would not have had a close collaboration of those who, in the Pollino's territory, live, work and love. I thought about a simple way to get people involved, which was open but closely connected to those places. So, I asked about a hundread people, by passing the word, to tell about a personal memory happened in the Lucania side of the Park: where I used to play as a child, that wood where I kissed for the first time, that field where I inlaid a little plane on a watermelon rind. Moreover, I asked to take some images: drawings, photos or other sorts of material. With them, I created some drawings by myself, then they were put on pieces of cloth and given to the manual skill of a group of ladys from the town of Latronico. They were asked to embroider them, adding little hand-sewed pieces at will, and create pillow-structures to fix them upon. The collective return of this action occurred, in addition to the photographic documentation of the realization process, in a shared moment: a final party, where it was asked to the participants to “put together” the different embroidered pieces, which were stuffed in a unique form, a hill or rather a “cairn”, a stack of soft stones that marks the presence of a special place along a mountain path.

Not somewhere else. Here.

Claudia Losi