There’s snow on Mt. Pelmo, logs in the fire, and the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) is well into action.

This morning, after a strong night wind, the Pelmo is covered in white, and the first winter morning dawns on Borca. In the Cottages of the Village, where the Residence for the artists is located, the wood crackles in Gellner’s majolica stoves.
And even the big heater at the Capanna Bassa (Eng.: Lower Cabin) of the Colonia, at this point the permanent lab of progettoborca, is on, and the chimney, determined, smokes, among the trees (here’s the fire).
That chimney was blocked until a few days ago: a fir tree grew into it, obstructing the flue. The tree has now been taken by Sandra Hauser. She transformed it into a patient of hers: “Patient – Phase I (Physical Examination)”, becoming a part of the installation (Investigazione in progresso, “investigation in progress” in english) realized in two low and dark rooms discovered in one of the Colonia‘s Pavilions.
The artists live here, we’ve said (and written).Stefano Moras, him too living in Residence at the Village for a month, lives with Sandra (dancing and singing as the saw plays a tune). His painting spreads, is spread, massive and translucent, by geometry and layers: ten old doors of the Colonia have been put together with other materials, and intuitions: all that fits in the cauldron, in the alchemy, in its sky, again full of stars.

They live here, we’re written, and the Village isn’t closed anymore, and the unrest grows, and spreads. In two weeks there will be a new studio-visit in Borca, showing off new works, and we’ll open new spaces, we’ll say new things.
Meanwhile, the fire eats the silence, the ideas spark, the shapes grow.

(10/22/2014)