Scirocco
Sometimes, when the artist feels the wind touch her face, she understands that this wind has touched thousands of faces and an infinite number of things before it arrived at this moment.
The comic follows the journey of Scirocco, a warm wind originating from the Sahara Desert. The wind travels across the Mediterranean, reaching the Northern Adriatic region, shaping the landscapes and lives of those it encounters. The story begins in the desert, where a child blows into a sea shell, setting off a powerful sandstorm. The wind gathers strength as it moves toward the African shores of the Mediterranean, carrying with it pieces of a distant land. Its journey culminates in Piran, where an old man, a collector of winds, captures it - recognizing its long journey. The wind, in its breeze, holds the essence of all the places, things, and beings it met along the way.
Captured wind serves as a connection to the outside world for a person living in a small town, with a limited reach of knowledge and experience. Yet, by changing the understanding of space and its variables, one can come in touch with distant places, cultures, and beings, simply by shifting the point of view. This story speaks to the invisible connections between distant places and cultures. Like the Scirocco, migration, history, and identity move across borders, shaping the region in ways that may not always be apparent. This work represents her experience of understanding how foreign places and elements become part of daily life, even when we do not consciously acknowledge it - and how interconnected our regions are with the wider world.
