This project, which I consider "an archive in progress", was born from the exploration of Sicilian peripheral spaces, located on the border between the countryside and the land undergoing development. These hybrid places, caught between the desire to return to the wild and the inevitable push for architectural-technological progress, represent for me fertile ground in which to attempt an understanding. In these "non-places", still not characterised by a defined identity, it becomes easier to trace the archetypes that are promoting changes in the landscape and, consequently, of the destiny of "civilised" man. "Serendipity" is the critical and emotional status with which I conducted my investigation: trying to keep pre-judgment at bay I let the images present themselves to my gaze, almost anonymously, keeping me at a critical distance from them that would allow me to "see them again". When this happened, their ambiguous power gave me back a strong sense of possibility: what previously appeared in contrast, disharmonious and implausible, slowly took shape in a "gestalt" that gave back meaning to space and things. Working on the "land" was a pre-text to explore man: his presence is evoked by the solitude of the scenes in which objects, buildings, cracks become "footprints" of his passage and his desires. Working on the edge of land still without a clear identity was ultimately an authentic "experience" of places where things, still in an early stage, potentially contain every possibility but, above all, they appear to the eye simply for what they are.