In-between earths
Repetition and variation. A trail of pounded earth crossed by ceramic structures.
When we walk the line suggested by the installation, the rhythm of inclination of the ceramic plates brings about the visual movement of undulation, helped by the lines drawn by the separation in the gaps between the plates on the ground.
The almost geometric regularity of the spaces allows for similarities with architecture, the way cities are built. If we want, here the path of raw earth can be read as a space protected by the baked pieces, like a spine of earth, with cord and vertebrae.
Path, course, road, avenue, street, sidewalk, track, trail.
A space to be crossed between a point and the other, intermittent destination, land of transition, a stretch protected by the buildings of processed earth, the elaboration of walls and containments, in arches that shelter and delimit, identifying the passage.
Direction, rhythm and movement are elements of earth built as a generational heritage, whose reason and way of use seem continuous and everlasting.
The visual movement caused by the observer’s point of view interconnects the way, allowing a reading in a continuous, rhythmic line. The fascination of progress, of evolution in a straight line, from point to point, in the urban and dimensional sense of life, in human movement between the lands.
Succession and resuming, viaducts and gaps.
In-between earths. Isabelle Catucci. Ceramic terracotta and raw earth. 4,00x 0,60 x 0,45 m. Photo by the author. 2021.