2021-08-09

2021-08-09

After a few dislocated apparitions that brought much doubt and dismay in our community, it’s official the presence in the municipal area of a huge animated white balloon. The creature seems endowed with its own life and agency. It emits signals of light and gently rolls along the paths of the woods, often following the river stream while confining itself, for the moment, outside the inhabited towns. It was filmed by a private camera along Via i Monti, a deviation from the state road for Monte Busca. In some confusing images (shooted at night), he glimpses a white shape that almost appears as doubled as if it’s hard to be captured. The news of these facts come also after the receipt in our office of several images of the mysterious balloon, pictured while travelling in the locality “Gorgoni”, close to San Benedetto in Alpe.

Extract from Burrasia, Clang!, August 2021

As mentioned at one point, we are foreigners in a hospitable land. The point of view of the foreigner, also considering the various integration processes in progress, remains crucial for the understanding of the place in relation to the cultural and social dynamics outside the territorial bubble. The balloon of Burrasia represents for me the stranger who breaks through the local social fabric, who wanders silently but without yet giving explanations about his presence. An unexpected movement that arouses both curiosity and suspicion, veiled by the esotericism of the unknown faces that wander the roads of the village.