In work, and particularly in activities where man is in close contact with matter, an indifferent demiurge, together with the primordial forces —water, air, fire — shapes and gives rise to new forms, to a new world that man creates for himself, a world that man inhabits and in which he seeks shelter.

It is in these places, where the transformation of matter resides, that the signs forgotten by the struggle of life in the objects that accompany our actions are revealed, and something of ourselves is unveiled, a faint trace of our memory and of our being here and now remains.

This is an ongoing project exploring work places as a shape of human footprint on the world we inhabit, the relationship of this processing on environment and on other living beings, the impact on our identity and on our specie evolution.

Photographs produced during the residency MATERIA PARANOICA - CEMENTO The Soul and the Machine and Le Serre Udine, promoted by Zeroidee in collaboration with IDA and funded with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.

Thanks to Fanna cement plant (PD, Italy) – Alpacem Italia for kindly hosting me and for all the cooperation about the shooting of the project.