ALPHABET OF EYES (Alfabeto degli occhi, (2020), used ferodoses and clay on plywood, 72 x 83 cm
Alfabeto degli occhi (2020) is a work that was made with using ferodoses (a brake lining material), and clay on a plywood in Rome in 2020 during the pandemic’s confinement the work was made, on the the balcony. Movement of the small ferodos figures of used ferodes that make up in the work is reminiscent of recalls children playing with lids and pots and pans on balconies overlooking the courtyard, and the girls dancing and singing, from the balconies looked out onto the courtyard every evenings at six o’clock. But there is a more ancient memory connection—that of the small figures on the walls of the temple walls of the Eye Temple in Tell Brak, Syria, in from the 4th millennium BC. The temple is dedicated to of the grey-eyed goddess, an all-seeing female deity.The Alphabet of Eyes work is dedicated to those who tried to respond to the problems of his contemporaneity with contemporary art, which that is above all public and accessible—. That art which that changes the one’s perception of oneself of self and also of one’s home within a greater community.
The work was placed in the Casetta Rossa Park in Rome’s Garbatella district from June 2020 to December 2023, when become part of Fondazione Orestiadi Collection in Gibellina, Sicily. It was installed where boys played football and toddlers have frolicked in the playground. In June 2022 there was an intervention with chalk on the work by children who saw those personages as extraterrestrials. In both the contemporary ferodos and ancient figures of ferodes and ancient figures,ones there was is no distinction of age or sex; but it is only the figures’ eyes that give them a physical presence, that made their corporeity. What they have in common is the a sense of looking beyond. They may appear blind, but eyes without light may see what is not visible can look without to see.
