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There are places that are ideal for the blossoming of imagination, where the heart arrives before reason, and the eye sees without the need to look. Here the mind is free, surrendering to uncertain horizons. For Nicola Cappellari, such places are watery landscapes of the Veneto, where time is dictated by the tide and by a constant, gravitational, slow, and mysterious motion that oscillates between flowing and retreating, shaping both the landscape and its perception.
The book, in leporello format, embraces the tide through a pagination that expands and contracts—almost an invitation to accept it with natural ease, along with its invisible reasons for placing oneself in harmony with the infinite universe.
The photographs reproduced in this volume are scans of Nicola Cappellari’s original silver gelatin prints and are accompanied by a geography of words, a sentimental map printed in letterpress with vintage typefaces from the archives of Tipoteca Italiana.