CUT AND RUN

The photo you can see here is a vanishing point from the lake of Como, where I come from. It's a quite small town in the north of Italy, pretty close to Switzerland and sorrounded by mountains which reflect themselves in a deep obscure lake. If you drive around this lake you can pass through many small villages just as the one you can catch a glimpse of the town on the photo. I will surely put more of its images because some time ago I became pretty proud of it. That's what I tried to express choosing the quote by this author to open my blog.

I found this sentence on the first page of the book I read the last time i took a flight to Barcelona and it effected me a bit. At that moment I recongized the mood I was in.
I found myself as in a vanishing point.
I realized that real things seem different if you look at them from afar such as the brown of the earth appear different getting away and leaving place to a continuos sky-blue when you are watching through the window of an airplane. Staying far from a place you know very well as your birth city is a good opportunity to look at it with different eyes and to find out how much part of your identity it is.

Anyway the pleasure to know new "realities, dimensions and worlds", to live in different streets, breathe different odors, to meet different people, to speak different languages, to understand different cultures, to destroy some of your absolute certainty and downsize most of your preconception and prejudice, to find what you didn't look for and couldn't imagine before, makes me sure that escaping is always worth.
So i'm here.

VANISHING POINT

"A vanishing point is one from which infinite lines depart from.
It's enough to follow them to dicover so many realities, dimensions and worlds.
It's a way not only to escape but also to understand how silly the things we consider absolute are, once we see them from afar.
Coming back,it's useful to look at them again with different eyes."
Pino Cacucci