Hanging line

In the heart of the Tuscan Apennines, between Doganaccia and Lake Scaffaiolo, a new cable car is being proposed — an infrastructure designed to connect a small town to a modest peak, aimed at reviving local tourism. But what is left to connect, when winter itself is disappearing?

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The planned route would link two points already walkable in less than an hour. It would be largely useless in the summer. An older cable car once served the same purpose, but it was shut down in 2007. Why build again — and now — when the conditions that once justified such infrastructure no longer exist?

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These images speak of absence: the absence of winter, the absence of the future that was promised. And they question the rationale of building more, when the landscape itself is already whispering — or shouting — that something has changed.

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The project unfolds into three parts: before, during, and after construction.

I hope only the first part will ever come to exist.