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«Knowledge is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.» Plutarch coined this phrase thousands of years ago, while I came across it during my experience doing the Civitella Raniere residency, in Umbria, Italy. During the three weeks I was there I had to live in a room in the library of a 15th century castle that while filling me with ideas and a desire to learn also generated enormous anxiety. When will we be able to read everything that has been written? Are we able to retain all that information? The result of this heavy and uncomfortable procrastination in which I found myself involved is a short (work in progress) that somehow turns out to be a diptych together with the work «Fennel Comunnis.»

Both works turn out to be in some way the answer to the other, both for a temporal issue, since both residencies overlap and occur at the same time, and because they refer to the same question regarding knowledge and what we do with it. Share it, as in the case of «Fennel Comunnis,» or collect and store it in various ways, as in the case of «The Vessel.»

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