The sacrifice

An original piece from the series “They sleep on the hill”, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, 2008.

In the “Spoon River Anthology” the poet Edgar Lee Masters tells the story of the people

buried in the cemetery of a small imaginary village. In Italy, the singer-songwriter Fabrizio

De André published a famous collection of songs inspired by the anthology; the first piece

of the collection is titled "They sleep on the Hill." I imagined to evoke in each of these

paintings a little story about a person or an imaginary group of people. I try to make the

story not too explicit but only vaguely mentioned. It may be a hidden love story, a

underhand secret, a family conflict or an unpunished crime. It's not too important to

understand the events involving these characters. After all, when you browse through

old family albums you discover the faces of people who have become too unknown for

the time spent, and we  try to imagine how these people have lived. What connection

linked them? They were happy? What really occupied their thoughts when the picture

was taken?

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