Vulcano | Giulia De Marchi
Inspired by “A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford” of Patrick Brydone, Vulcano is a series of digital and analog photographs that explores Etna, an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy.
“Many parts of this region are surely the most heavenly spots upon earth; and if Etna resembles hell within, it way with equal justice be said to resemble paradise without.
It is indeed a curious consideration, that this mountain should re-unite every beauty and every horror; and, in short, all the most opposite and dissimilar objects in nature. Here you observe a gulf, that formerly threw out torrents of fire, now covered with the most luxuriant vegetation; and from an object of terror, become one of delight. Here you gather the most delicious fruit, rising from what was but lately a black and barren rock. Here the ground is covered with every flower; and we wander over these beauties, and contemplate this wilderness of sweets, without considering that hell, with all its terrors, is immediately under our feet; and that but a few yards separates us from lakes of liquid fire and brimstone.”
P. Brydone, A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford
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