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Ombra d'alzina. 2006
As others hunt wild animals, Esclusa one day set out to hunt Nature's shadows. But unlike what happens in Gothic stories, Esclusa did not pact with the bushes, the wheat, the treetops, in order for them to give him their shadows in exchange for coolness, or peace. He did not plan to take that incorporeal part of their existence away, but instead give them their shadows back. Those shadows lost in the thickness of the undergrowth, in the darkness of the wet and wooded lands.
One day, leaning against a tree reading a book, Esclusa discovered that a shadow was cast onto the white pages of his book, but when he moved the book away, the shadow disappeared. He came back with white sheets of paper to put between the branches and the ground, so the shadows of each bough, each bud, each leave could exist, could recover their body, even perhaps their soul, leaving it forever printed in paper, and at the same time, to show each tree, each bush, each branch, that its existence was always accompanied by a personal and individual shadow, that was there even if nobody saw it, as eternal companions of wild existence, just waiting for a shadow hunter to recover them for eternity.
(Translation: Marina Torres)
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