ALL RIVERS LEAD TO THE SEA - Imprint river

Long term ongoing project

2013

The rivers, arteries of the Earth, constantly evolving and in perpetual movement, are made subject to a sort of "snapshot" of their configuration at a given time. Through the immersion of a cloth into the river, making it adhere to the bottom and then pouring a black pigment into the water in order to follow the flow until it deposits on the bottom and along the banks, is created an immediate ‘imprint’ of the river. That specific event, that bears witness of a precise moment "captured" by an "imprint", becomes a "living piece" of Earth, transliterated from reality to abstraction as if charting an "instant"; to unfold a vision rather than a fleeting sensation.


1) Imprint River I,
Black pigment on cotton fabric (3 x 5 m);

2) Imprint River II,
Black pigment on cotton fabric (1,5 x 3 m);

3) Imprint River III,
Black pigment on cotton fabric (1,4 x 3 m);

4) Detail;

5) Overview of the river.