There
was the old,
abandoned
building, so
close to the
sea. As we
entered, the
messages of a
time past came
to us in the
language of
found objects
and shadows: a
piece of
shattered
glass, a
copper coin, a
needle, a
spoon, and the
stain of water
on the broken
walls.
We
walked towards the
ruins thinking of
documentaries,
testimonies, and
chance encounters,
but there was
no-one to greet us
until the end. No
inhabitants, no
workers in the
wreckage of the
old factory. The
sounds of the
weaving machines
rising through the
open sky of the
place. The ridges
projecting lines
on the ground, the
skeleton of an
animal that came
from the sea to
mourn its own
death at the foot
of the hill.
The
camera was ready, and we
started to shoot, trying
different angles, looking
for traces of the others,
forgotten faces. Playing
with disorder and symmetry
in the eye of the lens. We
touched infinity in the
window inside another,
inside the frame, looking to
nowhere. My friend walking
up a staircase with no end,
without connection, a second
floor impossible to reach.
Only the open space for the
ghost living in there,
reaching the limit, ready to
start all over again,
falling threads of us
returning.
After
the growing silence of time and
destruction, we started to leave,
afraid of nostalgia, the miserable
feelings, the saddest memories of
those no longer living, the ones we
left behind in the camps. The sky of
winter was falling, the night thief
touching the borders, hiding
silhouettes in the closing empty
doors, in the rubbish of so many years
piled up at random.
Then,
the miracle: a wandering horse came to greet us
at the door, grassing among the remnants, hoofs
making a surreal sound on the floor tiles. We
did not capture that magic moment. It belongs to
friendship and poetry.
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