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The Perfect Union
Every year in the coldest weeks of the winter season, strange sculptures begin to appear in the fields all over the island. It is the moment for grafting.
Wild olive trees grow throughout the island and they produce perfectly tiny olives with a thin and bitter skin. However, though the oil from wild olives is supposedly superior to that of domesticated varieties, the yield is much, much lower. And so the grafting game begins. Wild olive trees grow throughout the island and they produce perfectly tiny olives with a thin and bitter skin. However, though the oil from wild olives is supposedly superior to that of domesticated varieties, the yield is much, much lower. And so the grafting game begins.
ph. Paola Pasini
Valentina Cameranesi
Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi was born in Rome. She has worked in the publishing industry, as an illustrator, as the head designer of lighting and furniture for the Diesel Home Collection, as a set designer, as an art director and as a ceramics designer. In other words, she is the consummate Creative Master. But what we love most about Valentina is her way of seeing every detail in the world from a new, oblique angle - her work goes against the grain without being dark, and is fresh without being naive.
What was your strongest impression of Sardinia?
First of all, the landscape - the “mineral” presence of these strong rocks, sand, salt that are wedged in between all of the plants and bushes. (You’ve told me about the wild orchids in the countryside in Spring, and now I have to see them.)
And then, the ornaments hidden everywhere - simple and lavish at the same time. The miniature bronze statues in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari, the spirals in the eyes of the Giants, the braids, the braids, the braids…
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