co+re dérive III ...

notes on (in)authenticity; Bellagio and the Lake

and again, a fast upload, sketches meant to keep the freshness of an immersion

Lago di Como, centuries, even a couple of millennia of cultivation, visible, tangible, palpable … and those mountains!

and then, the arrival to an almost mythical Bellagio, old, pretty playground of the well off; a seeming paradox - authenticity of of physical environment, natural and human-made, and a totally inauthentic experience of being (and, sadly for the residents, of living there; an illustration of the cost of “success’ in the business of tourism, a perfect illustration of dialectics between space and place; to majority in the queue below, Bellagio is a live, 3D postcard waiting to be captured on a selfie, immediately uploaded; to those who care and for those who could care for this precious environment - an alarm, a warning that a strict and radical “editing” is needed

huh! one is in such a beautiful place, and - can’t wait to leave; from the boat, all looks perfect again