Sopra una perduta estate
The urgency of love turns into the melancholy of what has been lost. (2009-2014)
Sopra una perduta estate (About a lost summer) is the title of a sparse booklet by writer and poet Francesco Leonetti.
Published in 1942, it originally consisted of just 12 poems—simple verses "in which the urgency of love turns into the melancholy of what has been lost."
This photographic project moves along that same simplicity, and the same urgency; sometimes closely aligned with the poet's verses, sometimes more distant, but always in harmony.
These are photographs clinging to the theme of memory, of the melancholic recollection of what once was and is now irretrievably gone. Memories lived not with desperate nostalgia, but with the resigned awareness that the flower that blooms today will wither tomorrow.
