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2000.
THE HOUSE WE ARE LEAVING...
The house we are leaving is altered by events.
Out of its axis, asymmetric, dented and collapsed, nostalgically
orphan of its center, of any pretence of control, the house we are
leaving is still habitable in our imagery.
We are leaving a century, a millennium still habitable and rithinkable.
This is the way I conceive the house we are leaving, the one that
represents us: a resistent fall, tenacity in weakness, hope despite
lack of balance, recollection of the past's hardness, lights and
shadows.
I'm thinking of a looking-glass house designed in polished, foliated
steel reflecting natural or artificial environment, placed in an
inside or outside space, enclosed in itself, visible and invisible.
A few cuts appear among its slanting surfaces, like wrinkles and
scars in an aged body. Crouched on the threshold of this residence
is a small figure carved in white stone: a curled up and down of
its entrance.
To think and to live are now the same...
(Antonio Marchetti, 2000)
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