SNAIL
CORRADO ROSA – 2012
It is not uncommon, walking in the pine forest of Pur, to come across snails with “little houses”, snails that drag themselves through grass, conifer needles, stream sand and forest soil, leaving behind a silvery and sticky trail.
“Since I was a child I thought that this mollusc, so armored but defenseless for its proverbial slowness, loved its living environment and life itself so much that it remained glued to things”, says the artist, who notes how the lazy snail prefers to tackle the stone in front of it rather than go around it. Bending and welding old irons rusted by time, Corrado Rosa creates a large snail that, passing a boulder, heads towards the water of the nearby stream. The colors of the snails evoke those of the earth, bark, withered leaves and old iron. The stones and the granite are what nature has preserved, the iron is what man gives back to it.