What for a few months seemed to me an insignificant place has become a moment of reflection, a crossroads of Turin that I see from the balcony of my house, two huge intersecting streets, where cars, noise and smog prevailed.
Because of COVID 19 what was noise has turned into SILENCE which is interrupted by the sirens of the ambulances.
The intersection has become a meeting place overlooking us from the balconies, there are those who dance, who applauds, who sings, sounds and songs that I have transformed into a labored breath.
The rows of vehicles are no longer visible, time is marked by the lights of the traffic lights which continue to demonstrate their function, stopping, slowing down and starting again.
In recent decades man has not had great respect for the environment, he has ignored it, for his selfishness he has pretended not to see and not listen, yet nature wanted to tell us something and continues even now.
Globalization, which must have had positive sides, bringing cultures and races closer together, was nothing more than a reason to ignore problems even more and to create others, we have lost sight of the most important things, "the details" and our identity.
The "social distance" must be transformed into the possibility of looking, feeling and confronting nature in depth, only in this way will it be possible to return to a perfect balance between earth and man, between large and small.