"Annotazioni" (Records) is a photographic work that was started in 2014 and ended in 2019. The series was inspired by a treaty on Japanese gardens called Sakuteiki (Records of Garden Making, Tachibana Toshitsuna) written around 1600, when those in charge of "making a garden" were considered artists, elected. The artist was a mystic who was able to "see" and consequently create an environment that allowed a "vision". In particular, Sakuteiki was mentioned in a book written by Gilles Clément (Breve storia del giardino, Quodlibet, 2012), where I found the best description of my work: “a garden is a means available to man to access the GREAT AWAKENING, meaning the knowledge of reality beyond the dream”. My images, in the broadest sense, are gardens. They are "doors" built with specific rules to ensure that the observer has space and time to dissolve himself and get to his own vision. Here is actually what I mean as desire: the garden itself is desire, the place where one can lay down arms, where it is possible to rediscover entropic consciousness. Our exhausting search to control uncertainty, as well as the continuous need to reach targets, has compromised our perception of reality, transforming it into illusion. By this photographic work, I chose to not tell any story, to prepare the observer to emptiness. Avoiding a narrative approach, I wanted the photos to become a means to take the eyes off everything that brings us away from the desire for the "great awakening". Therefore, I chose to compose “flat” images with one, maximum of two repeated natural elements, as the repeated pattern of natural elements brings detachment and catalyzing synaesthesia. Furthermore, I chose to avoid human subjects or composed or "narrating" images, since any explicit form inserted in a context with explicit dimensions, perspective and depth generates automatisms, conditionings and judgments (and therefore not the truth?) I used the large photographic format to obtain the largest and most detailed print size possible (negative 20x25 cm, direct printing from negative 180x230 cm). Everything has been designed to be giant in order to "go against, wrap and separate" the observer from everything else.