Near Chiasso
summer in the silence of the woods
on top of the hill of Monte Olimpino
can find dead wood (RS)
ash chestnut betullla
laurel cherry hornbeam maple
magnolia pear chestnut ...
some other hard and heavy and light fragile
all covered with their typical bark
in vain as some very decoative birch
other incredible as iron in the ash.
Sometimes some of the branches is ruined by bad weather
other classes they are well preserved and have very interesting forms (AH)
formed according to the codes of plant growth
that the ramifications of ash
are often made of harmonious church
reminiscent of Art Nouveau designs
while branching maples
goes straight lines
and keeping everything forever (almost)
the angle of attack to the previous branch. (XII)
few dead branch is still partly attached
dangling to the mother plant (PM)
others are lying on the grass among the flowers in the meadows
between a grove and the other
along with maidenhair ferns, ivy fescue
nettles anemones bells pink carnations
rododrendi dwarf purple raspberries strawberries
mixed forest without ice cream gentian papenzoli
saxifrage faithless dead and dry evergreen (HP)
Small trails meander through the trees (22a)
a breeze carries the scent of cut grass.
It 's like walking into a huge tree
that you do not feel exterior
a tree with leaves as big as the hill
of all shapes and all different colors. (+)
golden rays of sunshine as laser
pass through the branches as straight lines
light up and disappear at random
according to the movements of the leaves.
Or stop a second to report
quite a dry branch of birch
lying on the ferns among the ivy
or near a stone covered with moss. (721)
And before the snail cross the path
gather some branch (UF)
for my outdoor laboratory where
with a hacksaw Japanese
taglientissimo thin and cut it off (Z)
those parts of the branch that does not serve the purpose. (XL)
I was a first choice of these different branches
these signs of solid-fetched
raised the song of cicadas
and indifference among the ants
dried by the sun and wet by moon.
keeps them for a long time without touching them. (OSS)
Then I'll try to do some combination
with pieces of the same tree branches
or with pieces of different branches:
They need to be together without touching
leaning the wire tension. (OF)
The wires will be white cotton or linen raw
nothing interventions color: (TF)
All the live-wire show
the geometric nature of the relationship strength
parties will behave in compression
very naturally almost indifferently:
result is a solid body
formed by two opposing forces
where the elements in compression
are solidly together without touching each other.
And so, without tools spcial without aid manuals
without a well-defined even in details
without thinking about why I do and what will
no practical reason accessible to people
began to tie a white thread
at one end of a branch and then also
end of another branch again
as long as two wires are firmly thesis then
support on the tightrope the end of another
branch and hold it so that the branches do not touch
while you tie the other one is freed. With much patience
learning the technique while working (TMO)
and without knowing what will come out after the first
I am at a certain point
to have in front of me with great surprise
a solid object that was not there before.
(from "Code Obvious" by B. Munari, Einaudi 1971)
This is a sculpture created by Munari. Instead, the design application is my own creation ("Wind Instrument)
