FACES IN THE DIRT
MICOL GRAZIOLI – 2013
At first glance it looks like a furrow, perhaps a hole dug by an animal. We get closer and it is like a passage, a void ready to receive. Pushing ourselves to observe we discover the negative imprint of the most receptive part of our body: a mask that sinks into the earth looking at it, listening to it and smelling it from within. To create the cast of the faces Micol Grazioli sinks hers into the earth holding her breath, in search of communication with nature.
In seeking this contact she bends over the ground in a bow that presents itself as a form of respect, and which is repeated every time visitors to the pine forest approach the faces to observe them more closely. The natural space that hosts the installation is defined by moss, cultivated by spreading spores on the ground and on the trunks of the trees.