Assisi Palympseste

On the one hand, there's the past, the history of art, the history of the frescoes of San Francesco in Assisi, and on the other, the present of living, breathing trees growing in the humus of a 13th-century forest, the Carceri, where Saint Francis used to retreat. Through my photographic device, I try to restore a continuity between the imprint of this artistic and intellectual climate, its crucible, and the actuality of this landscape. I wanted to make these survivals available, because Saint Francis was the first to re-establish a link of continuity and communion between man and nature in a Christianity that had long since broken it.