During an artist residency in Foresta, a small village in the Roccamonfina-Foce Garigliano Regional Park in Campania (Italy), I explored the concept of insularity through a visual investigation that transforms a mainland territory into an imaginary archipelago. Starting from the impression of being on an "island without a sea," the work weaves together themes of relationship, memory, and fragility, questioning what makes a place insular and the invisible threads that connect it to other spaces. The work consists of 18+3 images: 18 representing the number of inhabitants of Foresta and 3 representing the invited resident artists. The images are built around several metaphors: the mycelium, which intertwines hidden roots; lichen, a hybrid organism that tells stories both recent and ancient; and tuff, a volcanic material that, in its porosity and fragility, embodies the need for care and attention toward depopulated microcosms. Through an alternation of macro and microscopic visions, I imagine insularity as a fragmented atmosphere capable of generating rootedness, exchange, and refuge. The title, drawn from a phrase heard during a site visit to the Ciampate del Diavolo paleontological site, where fossilized human footprints are present, evokes the possible reason that led hominins to traverse these places around 350,000 years ago. This suggestion becomes a reflection on the attraction to seemingly closed systems like islands, spaces where care and interconnection emerge as necessities. The project adds a new chapter to my research on insularity, reinterpreting the idea of the island not as isolation but as a network of vital relationships.