nonnità
The work entitled "Nonnità" was dedicated to my grandmother, who passed away on March 6, 2020 at the age of 99 for reasons remained unknown in the face of the spread of deaths in the time of covid-19, after 45 years of unusual and happy domestic cohabitation within our family. "Nonnità" expressing the importance of the irreplaceable relationship in particular with the maternal grandmother, a figure yesterday represented in many ancient paintings almost as a complement to the classic motherhood and today depicted in this contemporary work to underline the social importance legally recognized in the role of growth grandchildren and all that should be our community.
The figure of the grandmother has always been the one who dispenses certainties, with wisdom, protection and experience, is ours generational relationship with history, and it is precisely in a moment of health emergency like this that we grasp its fragility, having to deal with time and remaining powerless in the face of their disappearance.
But there are relationships so deeply rooted in our feelings that we can defeat, overcome, the painful separations of human existence, such as those that interrupt the lives of older and dearer people.
These transformations lay their deep roots in the tracks, in the furrows that formed in our soul.
In this fertile ground the role, the figure, the grandmother's magical aura has its place in the psychic world: they come combine wisdom and discovery, commitment and creativity.
Whether they belong to our personal experience or are welcomed within the confines of the past, grandmother has the right to live in the eternal present of the soul, in the mystical encounter between "puer and senex", or between youth and seniority, where our fairytale dreams will be colored with memories. It will be a meeting that, from time to time, will strengthen what is already indissoluble: an eternal trace of love, intended as an etymological interpretation at the origin of the term identified in the Latin a-mors that is, without death, as if to underline the endless intensity of this powerful feeling. I'd say, "sentiment" par excellence.
The figure of the grandmother has always been the one who dispenses certainties, with wisdom, protection and experience, is ours generational relationship with history, and it is precisely in a moment of health emergency like this that we grasp its fragility, having to deal with time and remaining powerless in the face of their disappearance.
But there are relationships so deeply rooted in our feelings that we can defeat, overcome, the painful separations of human existence, such as those that interrupt the lives of older and dearer people.
These transformations lay their deep roots in the tracks, in the furrows that formed in our soul.
In this fertile ground the role, the figure, the grandmother's magical aura has its place in the psychic world: they come combine wisdom and discovery, commitment and creativity.
Whether they belong to our personal experience or are welcomed within the confines of the past, grandmother has the right to live in the eternal present of the soul, in the mystical encounter between "puer and senex", or between youth and seniority, where our fairytale dreams will be colored with memories. It will be a meeting that, from time to time, will strengthen what is already indissoluble: an eternal trace of love, intended as an etymological interpretation at the origin of the term identified in the Latin a-mors that is, without death, as if to underline the endless intensity of this powerful feeling. I'd say, "sentiment" par excellence.
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