Playgrounds
represent the dimension that the eye is proposing to impose to
things, to outline and circumscribe places that are
meant to be addressed to defined objects, predictable
actions, shared presences.
Moreover,
playgrounds tell us about misleading pauses in the
existence, perfectly overcoming interruptions,
that draw apparently inflexible geometries .My
research constantly lingers to
look at the enchantment generated by the sight of such structures,
that brings the eye along the thin
borders of the conscious artifices of perception and the organic
rhythms of memory: the garden, the public park, the pool, the
basketball court. These are all
places where nature and artifice are linked and soak
together, where the straight line is interrupted
by the fragmentation of the leaves, of the plants, of our steps, of
the time spent elsewhere.
Playgrounds give
up their original function in order to tell the
story of past experiences, giving
way to geometrical forms that testify their passage.
