The symbolic universe represented by my "beds / altars" has its roots in the perception of the abandonment of a territory, the Sannio, and its peasant culture, in the painful awareness of the oblivion to which the ancestral and primeval customs of the places where I come from are intended. They are not replaced by forces of innovation, nor revitalizing hopes, but rather discouraged tendencies of refusal and abandonment. The photographic recovery of the bedrooms, intended as places of worship of a past in decay, develops from this social, cultural and historical haemorrhage. The custody of the sacred canon of the family, of its continuation, the fideistic certainty in a future both of procreation and of death, becomes tangible, in my imagination, in this intimate and reserved room, which becomes an altar. It is an alcove and a shroud, the cradle of those who are generated and the ground of those who have come to an end, in a circular rite that re-proposes the cycle of existence. Once the weight value that previous generations assigned to the bedroom is discarded, the cycle is broken, history is lost, memory evaporates. Finding such ancient and intact sanctuaries engaged me in a difficult search, which produced "Altars": my greeting, probably a farewell, to the Lares gods and to all that they will no longer be able to represent.