"The attraction and the terror of the forest is that you see yourself in it as Jonah

was in the whale's belly. Although it has limits, it is closed around you. Now this

experience, which is that of anybody familiar with forests, depends upon your seeing

yourself in double vision. You make your way through the forest and, simultaneously,

you see yourself, as from the outside, swallowed by the forest."

(John Berger, About Looking)

When I was child I was used to go skiing with my father. I caught a platter lift

in the middle of a wood and I remember, going up, this feeling: I entered in the wood

and the wood came towards me. It was magic and scary at the same time.

This series intends to explain that double movement. The work can be misinterpreted as

referring to a milieu of tall trees in a forest of bamboo, but is actually a portrait of the

human being and his entourage. It is the human condition, being locked out or included.

"Forest" is very and personal visual and emotional way. The viewer is not in the state of pure

contemplation and ecstasy, it is not about looking outside himself for wonder or meaning

but sinking in the mare magnum of ferns and conifers.

These images do not intend to represent Nature, neither describe a specific place,

a specific forest. They are as a screen, no vanishing points. They are front view images,

without perspective, or from the top. The forest is something that happens by itself, a

presence so impending that it isnot possible not be included.

"Forest" started in 2006 with its first part. It consists of photographic images taken in

locations around the world including Osterlen in Sweden, Cornwall and Scotland in Great

Britain, Dolomites, Orsigna, Ossola and Ticino Valley in Italy, British Columbia in Canada,

Kyoto Area in Japan, Tierra del Fuego in Argentina.