This geopoetic research comes from the alimentary interest towards the petrifaction of bread. The metaphorical relationship with "geophagia" (to eat earth) is the synthesis between the morphological characteristics of the food and the material intervention that bases its roots in the dough. The research starts from a local practice, the creation and consumption of toasted bread among the peasant populations of Calabria: a method for the subaltern classes to preserve the bread and stave off hunger. Going beyond geographical boundaries, bringing archetypes with it, this research generates a universal anthropological discourse that sees in geophagia the hard and poetic metaphor of the relationship between the petrified bread and the land that hosts it. Geophagia is a Pica behavior, an alimentary disorder for the medical look and it’s often observed during pregnancy. The Greek word “kissa” indicates the bird Pica and the food desire that women have during pregnancy. The medical language uses this bird to stigmatize this “deviant” behavior. During the late 1800s, psychiatry and colonial look denounce this behavior because it looks “perturbing”. Browsing the first part of the visual research you will find different types of paper and transparencies, that generate a poetic and, at the same time, a political imaginary. Instead, the second part of the research is composed of still life sculptures, made by the petrifaction process of the bread. Candidate project for the category 2 "Nature, Environment and Perspectives". Full project here: https://vimeo.com/353575785