THE COBBLER’S WALL – 1985 – 40×50
The unusual scene immortalizes the foreshortening of an apparently aged unreal wall. The plaster is composed of strange bricks that, approaching the picture, result to be soles of shoes, set one close to the other. The metaphoric association doesn’t only exists because of the colour of the leather and the bricks, but also as a visual effect of the tanned leather and its unfinished extremities, as the scraped plaster is. The shoe in the foreground has a hole to be mended by the cobbler’s work. Even though the character is not represented, his presence is palpable, he’s imagined surrounded by the leathers he works on, continuing his job as a craftsman, as long and constant as the slow and difficult footsteps of a man that builds up his own life.