A golden rope embroidery symbolically joins two extremities (as the banks of a river or the edges of a
borderline…), functioning as a metaphor for reconnecting and weaving the territory. We choose to
inhabit this rupture to try to weave its threads into an installation and gestural texture. A garden
with small golden flowers, a large egg and an imaginary dragon from which a half-human half- animal
creature rises, the blue of the sky, the red of gnarled roots, the whiteness of the stones, the
preciousness of the gold of the objects, are the figures. The gold functions as a symbol of care, a
substance able to repair fractures such as the rifts in our landscapes and more precisely in our
relations -as humans- with the Planet Earth. Indeed, the use of gold recalls the Japanese practice of
kintsugi, which literally means “repairing with gold” and which consists of using this precious metal
to weld together the fragments of a broken object. ORO is rooted in the ground that welcomes it and,
thread by thread, weaves a visual and gestural narrative that will take place in that precise space-
time. ORO invites the community to gather around a common space and a ritual gesture, in a common act
of caring. https://collettivomicorrize.art/progetti/oro/