The project stems from the discovery of the submerged ruins of Isola Santa, a small village in the Apuan Alps that was sacrificed in the mid-20th century for the creation of a reservoir. During that period, Italy’s mountain regions experienced profound transformations: large dams were built, streams were turned into artificial lakes and settlements were swallowed by water. These infrastructures have become so familiar that it is difficult to imagine the Alpine landscape without them, yet their origins often reveal a complex and painful history. Those lakes mostly share a common denominator: decisions imposed , economic priorities that ignored the needs of local communities, territories treated as expendable in the name of a presumed collective benefit. This awareness became the starting point for my research, which not only led me to discover places rich in tangible and intangible heritage, but also pushed me to reflect on our relationship with interventions that are both destructive and ingenious. Dams represent one of the most radical forms of alteration of the landscape.They erase environments but generate new ones; produce renewable energy, yet their construction rely on highly polluting processes. Around them unfold the stories of the people who lived in these valleys—and, beyond human concerns, the destinies of the natural world—turning these sites into spaces of conflict, adaptation, and memory. Climate change adds another layer of complexity. In 2022, many reservoirs dropped below minimum levels, revealing long-submerged traces of rural societies and transforming them into a recent form of archaeology. Exploring places shaped by flooding, displacement, or the disappearance of mountain villages has offered me an evocative lens through which to investigate the Alpine region. I sought out remnants, documenting the infrastructures behind these transformations and using mixed media to rebuild a landscape as layered and contradictory as the stories it contains.