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Mythology is a way to preserve memory. It is also a communal act, collective and ongoing. Memory lives in the entangled spaces between cloud, air, wind, soil, rain. It lives in the songs, the wine, the ritual, and in the land with those who tend it.

The aim of the residency is to study how memory is made, preserved, and cultivated in Loreto Aprutino, through mythology, through people, through landscape, and through data. At the center of this inquiry sits one question: can data become part of modern memory? Can it enter the mythology?

This study is drawn from what Castagno wrote about the vigneron as midwife: someone who supports and assists in the birth of something already generated through a combination of forces. Not author, but witness. This is the position the artist sought to occupy in this landscape.

The project takes shape as an installation with a video essay, drawings, photos, and poems. In the video, blurry, dream-like images, interviews with local farmers, and 3D scans of the land, all are woven together with sound composed from sonified atmospheric and bioelectrical data collected from the air and soil of the region. While the atmospheric and soil data offers a partial, quantified portrait of the landscape, the interviews with the people form the reflective layer: their memories of the land, the stories and mythologies that persist, what they feel is disappearing.