Trails Of Lights And Fires On Mount Etna - Unesco World Heritage Site

Sicily - March 2017; The Volcano Etna woke for the second time in a month.; According to Greek mythology; Hephaestus was the craftsman and smith of gods.; The ancient Greeks and Sicilians believed that he had his abode and his forge under the volcano Etna and that the eruptions were the proof of his mighty work.The landscape was enlightened by the gentle light of the Moon showing the “Sciara”, the black volcanic, rocks covered by a thick layer of snow. From the top crater a lava plume adorned the sky with trails of fire in front of a curtain of gentle lights pictured by the stars rotating around Polaris.

Dario Giannobile,   Italy, Siracusa

Ascetic

The project stems from the idea of ​​representing a female figure with a gesture, almost a last effort, tends to reach, from the darkness of the deep sea, the surface, separator element between the air and water between dark and light, between life and death, but also a symbol of a passage to another life no longer earthly but spiritual, eternal.

Emanuele Vitale,   Italy, Siracusa