IN AN EMPTY GLASS

Short true story for the Liverpool Biennial. (2007)

In this story all things are from the ocean and hopefully I’ll be able to give you enough clues to understand why.

«... on second thought we all have some secrets to protect and cherish. Hiding a treasure, even if it's the fruit of criminal activities is not always a condemnable action, in my opinion.
For instance, I know a respectable family who has made their fortune from piracy. The father and the mother spent the first twenty years (or so) of their union looting ships and fishermen's villages until they had enough of it, by which time they had put away enough money and valuables to live in grand style for several generations.

ON FILIPPO SANGIORGIO

I have finally seen Filippo Sangiorgio's "the exploded house" which he made back in 1917 near the lake of Piana degli Albanesi and it is the most extraordinary work of art i have seen or even just immagined to date. Moreover, the idea that such a sofisticated mind (capable ofconceiving such thing) should be associated with an illetteraten Sicilian man born in a family of shepards and brought up in the least cultured environment possible, makes the whole thing somewhat of a miracle.
The first time i had heard of this house must have been a couple of years ago when, on the way back from Corleone to Palermo, the car i was in broke down and we had to spend the night in a little cottage by the lake of Piana. There i overheard a german couple trying to explain that they were looking for a bombed house in the area. I didn't pay too much attention at the time.