Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

We found these papers near a high mountain lake, the kind that leave, as the poet says, a taste of meat sauce in the teeth. If they didn't say much to the frozen minds of the high seas, we seemed to recognize the maps of a world perpendicular to ours, with similar laws but controversial and unexpected combinations. We offer you the cartography of a return to impartial amazement.

Each table must be considered independently, even if inserted in a musical sequence.

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

From the painted plain rise two fires that hook the clouds and it is no longer known whether the smoke is descending or rising...

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

... careless foaming microclimates, which bloom like funeral roses, like black filled with meaning.

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

The boundary presences on the line that separates the wet bodies (normally blue) from the firmer and more feathery ones, make their china grow

bearded on a sea forgotten by geographers. The black undertow of the anemones and the mountains in the background (which here is much more important than the

protagonists), after sequences of wheat and blueberries, they line up in a succession of kisses.

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

The bull points its horns at the center of death. The sea is not a safe place for the moon, which can be attacked. In fact, we see the white feathers of the massacre on the surface . Despite the nearby land, the water, suspended and flying, in the open eyes...

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

The missing piece of the map is the beginning of the story, when he was young before we were born, but we are already in front of the promontory,

on the dirty water of the funeral river.

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

The more elastic plants on the other side seem to turn to the vapors of the infected water: deaths that no one remembers.

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

The rabbits escape into the landscape freed from contours, into the fog that unites things in a single rhyme.

Rediscovered landscapes - by Alberto Pellegatta starting from the drawings by Giovanni Gusmeroli

If the plot emerges, the scene makes sense again.