Terre Basse is a photographic project started in the second half of 2020. Due to the travel limitations imposed to contain the infections following the pandemic, I decided to rediscover, armed with several analogue cameras, the places that characterized my childhood and adolescence. The forced stalemate also allowed me to study some philosophical readings that contributed to the development of this work. In particular, I focused on the analysis of the present in relation to the themes of memory and forgetfulness and their influence on the coherence and imaginative continuity that we build during our existence. It is not possible to decide or want to remember something on purpose, to bring back sensations and past images you need a spark, a present perception who takes you back in time. This is the main reason that led me to investigate the strip of Padan plain that runs along the Po river, from the border between the province of Pavia and Lodi, a place where I have lived since childhood, and extend the research to the Delta, which marks the insertion of the river into the Adriatic Sea. On the Po Valley is usual to be overwhelmed by the feeling of indefinite, boundless; on sunny days, looking towards the horizon, it is possible to see immense flat expanses, smooth, suspended, identical to themselves. On the contrary, with the fog, which covers the landscape in a dirty white, the plain hides and is shrouded in the mystery of which we can only imagine the forms. This lack of boundaries paradoxically tends to be claustrophobic. In this the plain is comparable to the open sea, to cross it and discover it there are infinite ways and when the choice is so wide it’s not easy to decide the route or it’s possible to get lost. The Po river cuts the flatland in half, marking the border between various Italian regions, between Piemonte and Lombardia, between Lombardia and Emilia Romagna, between Lombardia and Veneto and between Emilia Romagna and Veneto. With its winding line it breaks the monotony of the lowland. Traveling along the bank of the Po river, it is inevitable to turn your gaze to the other side of the river, see the mirror bank and fantasize about what life is like beyond it. It reminds us of the existence of the other, the curiosity and the tension towards discovery. To understand the Po river you have to get closer. It is as flat as the lands it surrounds, it hides its real power. In this environmental context, the sense of abandonment, forgetfulness and loneliness is often perceived. Spaces are unquestionably still disputed between man and nature, from an architectural point of view the signs of modernity are few and, when they exist, they do not reconcile with their surroundings. The distance from highly urbanized and industrialized areas is sometimes not extended to the level of kilometers, but it is in the relationship between the inhabitant and the inhabited land. It is a resistance zone. I tried to focus the investigation of the territory, often reducing it to marginal and unspectacular landscapes, with the attempt to reveal the depth of the dialogic relationship between man and environment, between artificial and natural, showing the balances and contradictions that characterize it. I deliberately excluded the physical presence of people, trusting in the fact of representing it and fixing it in the actions, in the works and in the mutual interaction with the surrounding environment.