“ The Observatory “ 🪐 🔭 Piazza San Marco 🌌 Eight lunar spheres of Murano glass hang suspended, evoking the planets and reflecting light with quiet intensity. The piece frames the observatory as a space of dream and reflection, where looking outward into the cosmos allows the self to find perspective - where imagination, science, and introspection converge. Venice mirrors this duality: a city of stimulation and inspiration, yet one that offers quiet moments for contemplation, where discovery and introspection coexist. The spheres themselves are crafted through an alchemy of glass, minerals, and metal powders, layered to create depth, texture, and a subtle, luminous complexity in each piece. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s “Cosmicomics”, in which the universe becomes a lens for thought and wonder: “You explode, if that’s more to your taste, shoot yourself all around in endless darts, be prodigal, spendthrift, reckless: I shall implode, collapse inside the abyss of myself, towards my buried centre, infinitely.” Each sphere becomes a point of reference, inviting viewers to escape into the vastness of the cosmos, to reflect on their place within it, and to inhabit a space that is at once contemplative, imaginative, and transformative. Thank you @theveniceglassweek @comunevenezia for including me amongst such brilliant 💡 artists and to Fabiano for his mastery and patience 💌 @enricofiorese 📸