‘Majella’ encourages to rethink the human approach with the nature, facing the consideration that something has been lost in the way we live our lives in modern times and it points out the urgency of recovering the relationship of reciprocity with the natural world in order to pursuing the life’s progress on Earth. I grew up in Abruzzo, a central region on the eastern coast of Italy, crossed by the Apennine Mountain range. For this reason, I have always been able to admire the mountains, even up close and because mountains and woods still show the ancient relationship that existed between people’s presence and their land, I have always considered those places unique. In particular, the Majella is the second highest mountain in the Apennines, and I have cultivated an intense relationship with it, above all, for the particular symbolism of a mother connected to its figure. Indeed, the legend of her formation is based on the story of the Pleiad Maja’s death, from which she inherits both her name and her distinct shape of a reclining woman. In recent years, I have lived elsewhere, mostly in densely urbanised areas because this is how a better life is imagined in the modernised world and unfortunately, this migration has become the destiny of many of those who grew up in the Apennine Mountain range. This flux of abandonment broke a secular and reciprocal bond which existed between man’s settlements and the wilderness. Since I left those territories, the mountain became the archetypal image of the far natural world. With a personal tone, this work expresses my sense of loss as a result of my separation from these natural places, which becomes allegorical for the broader existential condition of the human species. The mountain represents nature, a state that humanity has abandoned pursuing anthropocentricity . ‘Majella’, thus, is the story of a mountain that speaks about its exceptional regenerative capacity in cycles of rupture and reunification, an ability that humanity nowadays totally lacks, as the presence of life is constantly endangered by anthropic activities. In this way, ruptures and cracks not only symbolise regeneration but at the same time, evoke the feeling of loss, representing the danger that life could disappear because of the occurred separation. Art represents a safety net; whenever an image is torn and then re-assembled, it takes on a new life and semantics. Perhaps this is a message of hope that mankind will be able to regain the same bond that has allowed our survival since the beginning.