Islanders

“The men and women of these images inhabit their place without magic, stuck warm in the circle of beauty, which is not dust, paint, flicker. Beauty is essence, power and adventure of waves. Here the inhabitants are surrounded by the element that constitutes the majority of the planet. Therefore, the island, and not the mainland, is in the image and likeness of the world” (Erri De Luca. Italian writer; translation from Italian by me).