Opus incertum, the healing process: my journal painted directly on the wal

l or on found sheets or on old prints of my photographs. The gesture of endless writing. Cover and erase and write, and then rewrite and re-erase. Masking tape, plaster, found paper, Indian ink, pigments, acrylic black, tempera, chalk, iron oxide, black or red crayons, digitised and reprinted on mesh, deluxe flag cloth, polyester cloth, blue back papers, other, etc.

I frantically search for tools /as I write so I erase / what comes up in body as well as in mind after sleeping /I fill the hole /I nail /scelsi di inchiodare gli assi perché resistessero più a lungo /I give up

The journal is based on texts, gestures, erasures on the wall with sandpaper and brushes, on the dust passing from one sheet to another, on the dust from the scraped wall. On found plates or on wire. Actually, on everything that could accumulate time. But also on aloe vera, lemons, leaves of healing plants, water infused with herbs. Aloe vera dries in the sun and then rusts, turning red and yellow. Even Mons Vesuvius stones erase. Some sheets are covered with lava powder or lapilli.

Pieces of Opus Incertum, printed on fabric and a mesh banner, are performed in Oreste will be back by Alessia Siniscalchi.