Allegorical Pilgrimage and Dante, 2019.
A tote bag with a photograph from Mount Tamalpais printed on it. It represents pilgrims in the time of Dante and behind the project there is an explanation of why pilgrimage was and is still an important road to take; not only does it symbolise a physical path but also an evolution of the person’s interior.
Dante’s work includes mentions and allusions to pilgrims: in this project, the trip from Hell to Paradise is considered the ultimate representation of pilgrimage.
The creation also includes cards with the same photograph and a sonnet written by Dante, in which he imagines that he stops some walkers to tell them Beatrice is dead, assuring that no human being would follow his path immune, without first having shed some tears of pain for her. Dante chooses to intervene in the spiritual path of the pilgrims, making them realise that life can also become, sometimes, a tragedy.