from the artist's website: The video Encounters is the last part of a cycle created following my first experience in Iceland in 2018 and it reflects on the need to recover a lost balance between the biorhythm of the human being and the natural course of the animal and plant environment. This reflection originates from a very personal event happened few years ago. Following a tragic accident I had while diving into the sea from a cliff, the diagnosis of the rupture of some vertebrae forced me to a period of sedentary lifestyle. To find harmony between body and landscape, I decided to take a trip to a fjord in Iceland. In 2021 I returned to these lands in full Italian lockdown. The video brings to light this reality where human beings and nature coexist peacefully, as demonstrated by the natural pools in the local spas. In every small town in Iceland is always present a spa system consisting of several pools at different temperatures. In other cases, the pools are natural, and are fed with hot water from geothermal sources. On my first trip I went there almost every day for rehabilitation, and while I was exploring the different pools I cataloged their shapes and planimetric structures with unusual, abstract and in some cases almost anthropomorphic shapes, translating them into silk-screen prints on pool tables. Here I discovered the Seljavallalaug swimming pool, built by ‘carving’ a mountain in the 1920s by an inhabitant of the nearby town to teach his fellow citizens to swim, following numerous accidents on nearby coasts (in those years it was not mandatory being able to swim in Iceland, a country that bases its economy mainly on shing). I found the shape of this pool and the history connected to it of extreme symbolic importance, both at the landscape level (it ts with extreme harmony in the landscape without being invasive), and at the social level, for the strong values of solidarity connected to it. The personal need to find a harmony between the body and the landscape has given rise to a project with a collective and sociological aspects as it aims to address binding issues such as the ecosystem, the possible ways (constructive or destructive) of relating to it, the origins of the world, the approaching of its end due to anti-ecological operations, and possible solutions to this situation.