A site-specific installation designed for a place of encounter, memory, and history. The three artists usually work with natural materials, earth, and stone, creating a mixture of raw materials found on site and a “new writing.” The entire work contains the five types of stones and earth that make up ponca. At the center of the installation stands an arch, flanked by the outline of a wall: a former border. This passage, now apparently devoid of function in the absence of the wall, becomes a metaphor for transition: a threshold through emotions and states of being. It speaks of transformation as an act performed by us, a reminder of our ability to heal and choose to move towards a higher state of consciousness. The aesthetic dialogue is also evident: the Slovenian artist’s arch emerges from the stone and develops into rust, while the wall created by the two Italian artists rises from the rust, supporting bricks made entirely from different types of earth and decorated with gold dots taken from the wire cages of Gradis’ciutta bottles. A visual interval, an optical exchange, a passageway that opens onto the Italian countryside and, symbolically, onto the Slovenian countryside on the other side. A passage that can be crossed and that no longer encounters obstacles.  The suspended bricks and stones create a play of levels as if they were suspended in the sky and at the same time anchored to the earth by thin stems that form a flowery meadow. Written in stone, it tells of what those stones and that earth experienced 50 years ago and which, when reassembled, give life to new writing aimed at the future.

Materials: Ponca marl, Ponca stone, local marble, iron rods, iron bands from barrels, Grandis’ciuta bottle cages.