Mattia Morelli

beggars

"We will save ourselves only if we remember we are all beggars."

One day, when I was a child, I really got scared as an unexpected completely black dressed beggar woman appeared beside me, while I was drinking from a fountain. It was so terrible that I could not sleep as usual that night. But now I think that wiping out the materiality of beggars means transforming them into fading shadows, so that we can only get used to them with a chilling coldness. Yet, following that way, maybe we can also realize there are common people who have become beggars by choice or under social compulsion. Laying frustrated or submitted, here we see bent head and hidden face, knelt down women.