there are no interruptions. there's an organic quality. the past always involves nostalgia, but it's not about mourning a lost world. it's this world. we should look at the past and history not as something dead and sealed off in time but as something alive that always speaks to us anew and makes us question things. so, in looking at the past, i'm looking at the world that shaped and nourished me.  
what society experienced a culture of real awareness? 
at a certain point, a process of transformation began that's grown ever more accelerated, ever more arrogant, and presumptuous, to the point where we're destroying the home we all share, the home in which we all need to find shelter, comfort, and what we need to live.


ermanno olmi,
interview about
tree of wooden clogs