Etrurian State of Mind is the story of an irrational return, and the reconstruction of a lost everyday life. After many years abroad covering social conflicts in the Balkans and Latin America, my country has transformed into the most exotic of settings. I began to photograph in places that, only a few years earlier, would have seemed so familiar, yet today I struggle to understand it.
In 2023, I suffered a severe hearing loss, and my life suddenly changed: how could I continue working and photographing around the world with an almost total loss of hearing in my left side?
My body has implemented new strategies in order to be able to communicate. It was surprising how things changed shape. Sound suddenly turned into space. And if hearing from my left side was now impossible, fighting with space instead became a manageable challenge. I was intrigued by this brand-new struggle, and the land of ancient Etruscans became my personal battlefield.
