Floating Mountains

Migrant Landscapes tells a story. The "sailing mountains" of the Valmarecchia, those rocks and peaks emerging from a sea of clay that characterise its landscape, navigated for millions of

years over the ancient seabeds.

Penna and Billi, San Leo, San Marino, Verucchio and all the villages and fortresses for which the region is renowned since the Middle Ages, rose up on these elevations. Other fragments of this slow navigation,

the Sasso Simone and Simoncello, La Verna and the Fumaiolo are still

places of great fascination that evoke tales of travel and travellers,

stories of saints and bravery.

These geological features, which define the relationship between man and nature, become the metaphor of the ceaseless transformation of landscape. The underlying theme of this project is the consideration of landscape as a dynamic process not only an image fixed on a postcard, but a sum of relationships, possibilities and changes.