Posidonia

Posidonia, grassland that lives in the Mediterranean Sea, represents an enormous wealth of the sea, because it constitutes a shelter for many living organisms and as every plant, it exploits the mechanism of the chlorophyllian photosynthesis, that releases in the sea an important quantity of oxygen essential for the life of the sea. Because it is possible, the water in which the Posidonia is, must be clear, so that the light of the sun can penetrate and arrive on the seabed and if it decreases, it comes losing the photosynthetic activity of the plant, reducing it to the death.
Because of the anthropic action more and more invasive, it was found that in different areas of the Mediterranean, grasslands are regressing to damage of the whole ecosystem.
In Sciacca, in front of vast portions of Posidonia beached,
I have been attracted of it and instinctive has been the action to pick up some of it and to bring them with me.
The operation to pick up the rests of Posidonia and to elaborate them in the darkroom, is a process in which the light goes to restore somehow the form,
the memory and the value of the Posidonia. Concrete and real elements, images realized of lines and heat that as a play become energy and story.
At the same time, the native form of the mass realized on fifteen sheets, is
deconstructed and reassembled to remember as it slowly is fading away.
Single edition - Technique: gelatine silver bromide / paper.