As I walk, it feels like I am able to recognize in every face that I meet my people, my streets, the places of my childhood, the moving notes of an accordion played in the streets, the children’s laughs in the Villa Comunale and my grandfather’s stories from past times. The joy – that of a mandolin, a sudden joke, an unnecessary piece of advice. The heat – that of the sun and the people, able to soften even the hardest soul. The force – that of the sea that looks after this city and this population that has risen many times. The love – the one that is ever present there and makes me feel at home anywhere in the world. ’Ncantesimo is a project of collages and analogue photographs created in 2023. It is an open window onto past eras, a mirror of today’s reality. It is a tribute to what is “home” in the heart.