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I got to stay for 10 or so days at Farm Cultural Park in Favara. Favara is a small town
in the south of Sicily near Agrigento. Very at the edge of everything. It used to be no mans land.
And then there was the Farm. And people came and people go and i went too.
And i loved it. The heat. the town. everything.
Except maybe the mosquitos keeping me awake at night.
During the day I went down to the beach to Punta Bianca to swim and to collect wood.
Then the machete. The color. And up with them in the air. Like brushstrokes that you can walk through.
With many of them i tried to find a point to fix them so that they would move with the wind.
You should have been there. I really loved setting up this installation.
I had a great time. But that is 6 months ago. Now i'm back here in Favara and only a few sticks
survived. But that's how it goes and how it should be. I think those will remain for much longer.
Everybody that i met during my short visit greeted me as friendly as never
before and everybody seemed happy to see me. So i think my work was good.
And i'm sure i'll return to the Farm someday.
Peter Piek, Taranto 19.2.2017