The series consists of ten photographs showing parts of the black HDPE - the acronym for high-density polyethylene - that for an indefinite time covers and waterproofs the eco-balls in one of the main open-air waste storage in Giugliano - Masseria del Re, Naples. The giant bales contain compressed waste that is not correctly separated and can be hazardous. Therefore, nobody removes them. The work continues an investigation on environmental awareness and the transformations of the landscapes where extraneous elements model the forms of the natural landscape and its perception. Furthermore, it explores the materiality on the surface and the negation of the black colour that represents the extreme limit. The surface of these monochromes is shaped by the creases of decaying waste and marked by signs of atmospheric agents. Time becomes material space. The views of this landscape have been altered by human beings. In the visual field, the enormous plastic anomalies predominate and condition the observation by those who live in the area or pass through it. However, collected in an avoided or forbidden place, they are not seen up close. Since long ago in a field of the Terra dei Fuochi (Land of Fires), the stocked waste represents environmental risks related to water, air, and soil pollution. It is no more the “Campania Felix” known by the Ancient Romans - who called it “fertile countryside” for its fecund soil - and does not provide the enchanting panoramas admired by the Grand Tour travellers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Each title of the images refers to different toxic heavy metals which contaminate the soil of this area in dangerously high concentrations: antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chrome, lead, manganese, nickel, selenium, and vanadium.

The series consists of ten photographs showing parts of the black HDPE - the acronym for high-density polyethylene - that for an indefinite time covers and waterproofs the eco-balls in one of the main open-air waste storage in Giugliano - Masseria del Re, Naples. The giant bales contain compressed waste that is not correctly separated and can be hazardous. Therefore, nobody removes them. The work continues an investigation on environmental awareness and the transformations of the landscapes where extraneous elements model the forms of the natural landscape and its perception. Furthermore, it explores the materiality on the surface and the negation of the black colour that represents the extreme limit. The surface of these monochromes is shaped by the creases of decaying waste and marked by signs of atmospheric agents. Time becomes material space. The views of this landscape have been altered by human beings. In the visual field, the enormous plastic anomalies predominate and condition the observation by those who live in the area or pass through it. However, collected in an avoided or forbidden place, they are not seen up close. Since long ago in a field of the Terra dei Fuochi (Land of Fires), the stocked waste represents environmental risks related to water, air, and soil pollution. It is no more the “Campania Felix” known by the Ancient Romans - who called it “fertile countryside” for its fecund soil - and does not provide the enchanting panoramas admired by the Grand Tour travellers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Each title of the images refers to different toxic heavy metals which contaminate the soil of this area in dangerously high concentrations: antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chrome, lead, manganese, nickel, selenium, and vanadium.