Barbed Wire with Green Cream 1

Claudio Parentela, Italy

5 May 2025

barbed wire 1

There is a very high border to reach and climb and overcome … I try always, but fall every time, because every time it is always higher, always more dangerous to overcome. But… I can’t take another road to get there, this is the only one I know, the only one I want, the only one I feel is mine. There are borders that my mind destroys and creates, continuously, there are borders that my body creates around and inside itself to feel prisoner and free, prisoner and free. I study in my dreams always new paths that allow you to reach me, to reach you, who are on the other side, to reach me who am everywhere but I can’t see you/see myself, to hold tight your hand that the border separates and unites more and more. Like a faint shadow it lengthens on my steps, like a heavy and dark breath it lengthens on my steps. I fly, I fly high, but the barrier has reached beyond the highest sky of the sky. I fly to meet you beyond every dream, beyond everything that can divide us, and that unites us, that separates us and that unites us more and more. My heart is on that barbed wire, it is pierced and bleeding, it is happy because you have been able to feel its warmth at least once, every time you want my heart is up there, on the highest barbed wire.

Barbed Wire with Green 1 Cream is part of the series. You will be able to see the next piece in a month’s time.