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Airports

Stories and drawings that capture the soul of airports: suspended spaces where time stands still.

The seated statue outside Bergamo’s airport
A hand and the Milan Bergamo Airport sign

Places of departures and arrivals

Outside Bergamo’s Caravaggio Airport there is this statue, suspended amid the endless flow of people.

Every time I look at it, I think of how much Caravaggio has always fascinated me: the shadows, the sudden light, the faces that seem to rise out of the dark like apparitions.

Maybe that’s also why I’m drawn to the margins, to waiting, to quiet people.

Because in Caravaggio’s paintings there are no perfect figures: there are real bodies, wounds, weariness, life.

And in that seated figure, alone in front of so many travelers, I find something of his own restlessness.

A man inside the chiaroscuro of the world.

Departures and arrivals: fragments of airports and suspended moments.

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