This series was born to go through a time of sorrow that has affected me and my family.

The disappearance of a family member is always a moment of pain, if it is after a long rare and degenerative illness it is something, perhaps, more complex, if it is a young member and if it is a daughter, it is even more complex.

It all starts with chapter one, the day of the funeral, the day of farewell.

That day was the last of the fall season, I saw a female hornet resting on my aunt's watering can.

In another situation, I would have run away screaming. I hate hornets , my grandparents taught me they are very aggressive.

But this female seemed not to be interested in me, or the other family members. She moved slowly, more and more slowly and I could get close enough to photograph her.

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At that moment I understood that she was dying.

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One of the most terrifying predators in the Apennine habitat was dying before my eyes and my mind could not help but catch that moment as a sign of nature. Thus was born the first chapter, from the last moments of life of a female hornet at the sea of ​​Leghorn, a journey where I symbolically wanted to bring the soul of the lost person from the mountains to the sea with my own eyes.