“In every woman there is a natural and wild being, a very powerful force formed by instincts, passionate creativity and ancestral knowledge”. Over the centuries, history has tried to repress this woman, attempting to tame her, channel her into a stereotype of submission. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, in a famous essay from 1992, wrote “we have grown our hair and used it to hide our feelings”.

In my work I started from the study of the archetype of the “wild woman”, the one that Estés talks about and that the cantadore narrate in myths and fairy tales. I discovered that this woman is comparable to the wolf for her playful spirit, her devotion, her wandering soul.

I went looking for this figure in real life, as precious as it is threatened by a suffocating civilization... I found the free woman - she-wolf, starting from a place I know well, a small town on the slopes of Florence where I lived for 25 years and where I have been working for 10. Here I found women who are mothers, are witches, are wonderful beings made of the beauty of light and the fury of the storm: Caterina, Lucasta, Giulia.

Three women who don't follow the patterns, who talk to trees and lie on the ground with their legs in the sky. Three women who are aware of their femininity, they don't fear it. An actress who teaches children; an androgynous and sensitive woman; a creative, restorer and stylist.

In each of them “everywhere and always, the shadow that trots behind undoubtedly goes on all fours”.

I have combined this project with a different work that I have been working on for a year and a half, entitled “The Breath of the Forest”, which looks at Nature as a home to return to in order to rediscover one’s roots.

Starting from the analysis of the environmental risk that our century is experiencing, for over a year I have been traveling to visit European forests that are particularly important in terms of biodiversity. The various trips have taken me to the primary forest of Białowieża (Poland), to the Natural Park and UNESCO World Heritage of Plitvice (Croatia), to the enchanted forest of Hallerbos (Belgium), in our Alps.

In this artistic/environmental project I myself become a woman who runs with the wolves. In my wandering research, I try to capture the essence of the plant world, transmitting it to the world with a vision that renders the preciousness, the magic and the fragility of ancient forests, centuries-old home of many species and gigantic lungs for the territories they host.