“If I were to write my own creation story, it would begin early in the morning, on the verdant lawn of a house in the Venetian countryside. Here is the moment when light first touches the apple tree leaf, opens the dog’s eye, and invites the flower to blossom in gentle wonder.”

From this inaugural scene unfolds In the Light of a Miracle, project developed in the garden of a family of small-scale farmers in Northern Italy. The series took shape through months of sustained presence in one of Europe’s most intensively cultivated and industrialized regions, working with analog black-and-white photography.

This landscape is defined by economic, agricultural, and environmental pressures: fields are productive, infrastructure dense, land measured by yield. Within this context, the garden operates at a human scale. It offers a field of reciprocity and symbolic resonance, connected to enduring pastoral rituals and subtle gestures of devotion embedded in its cultural fabric. The photographs attend to acts of tending, seasonal repetition, and the slow continuity of care and affection. Light functions as an organizing principle, sustaining life while giving form to the image itself. Nothing is staged; the work unfolds through proximity and duration.

In the Light of a Miracle forms part of a broader artistic research into the spiritual dimension of, and within photography. This spirituality is not confessional, but grounded in attention, inquiry, and relation to the real. The landscape is approached as a symbolic field, and the garden as a locus of revelation and responsibility: a bounded yet permeable territory where tangible geography meets an invisible dimension informed by the systems of belief that shape how we dwell upon the earth.
By engaging the garden as a “time of the Other,” the work considers photography as an act of receptivity and relation, suspended between documentary intent and delicate observation. At a moment when environmental strain structures public discourse, the project advances a practice grounded in human encounter and benevolent commitment, offering a counterweight to extractive ways of seeing, and affirming that care can be articulated visually.