Not for sale 

Our society has become disconnected from Nature, we use it continuously without even a thought about it. Our contacts tend to become more and more virtual as we go forward, leaving behind real connections to things. To demonstrate this disconnection it is important to have art in nature and nature in art. Through "Not for sale", I want to create a connection between our daily consumption habits and what we have to care about, or maybe at least think about.

This project started during summer 2007, when I traveled to the Pamir Mountains, in Tajikistan, to participate to a contemporary art festival based on nature. Pamir Mountains are huge, savage and unfriendly. But groups and lines of tall poplars inhabit its valleys, dancing and balancing in the wind: this contrast is striking; it is a signature of the Pamir Mountains. Aiming at depicting the necessity for mankind to keep nature safe from our consumption frenzy, I chose to use this couple "rocky mountains/fresh poplars", engraving code bars from poplars on Pamir mountains, showing the contrast between what we use every day without care about and what is precious for us and we don't look after.

I currently continue this project with other environments, forests, water sources or living beings.

-“Nature Art”, Contemporary Art Festival, Khorog, Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan): realized a set of graphic design posters called “Not for Sale” and a performance called “Pamran”,2007.

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