Nod

Nod is a work that starts from a very simple and, precisely for that reason, extremely powerful gesture: to tie. The sculptor imagines the stone as a strip that curves, twists and tightens into a real knot. In a hard, almost inflexible material, a form appears that suggests elasticity and tension, as if the travertine had been tamed to the point of becoming a line.

The knot traditionally has a clear symbolic value: it is the sign of union, connection and durability. It does not just unite two ends, but transforms two fragments into a single continuous path. In the context of the 2018 edition of the camp, dedicated to the Centennial of the Great Union, this metaphor becomes even more direct: unity is not a fragile contact, but a close bond, capable of resistance.

From a plastic point of view, the work impresses with the dynamics of the curves and the alternation between cut surfaces and areas kept more raw. It is a sculpture about the tension that holds the forms together: a knot as a symbol and, at the same time, a demonstration of line and volume in stone.