At the end of October 2018, strong winds hit the mountains on the north-east of Italy, provoking the uprooting of more than 42 million trees on a surface equivalent of 1 million acres. Still today, the removal of logs laying on the ground is ongoing in the most inaccessible areas, whilst the extirped stumps of red spruces emerge from the ground.

Spending time in these areas drew me into an eerie feeling: the dangling roots holding white rocks and the ripped trunks between crevices and breaches on the ground suddenly bond together recreating haunting figures, beast-like characters emerging from the ground organic matter in which a sedimented, archaic atmosphere, seems precariously balanced between nature and disaster, life and the abyss.