Hylonicum

Light and its residues, by Nicola Polloni

Sicily, in Fragments

Savoca

Savoca unfolds across steep roads, weathered buildings, ruins, scaffolding, and surrounding hills. The sequence follows the town through passage, repair, habitation, and the slow persistence of stone.

Three women wearing hats walk away along a paved street between white houses and garden walls.
Visitors stand and walk along a sloping street overlooking old churches, houses, and hillside buildings.
Church and bell tower above a descending road, with steep green hills and a distant coastline beyond.
Curving paved road overlooking houses scattered across a rocky hillside beneath the remains of a hilltop structure.
Small weathered church with a bell and cross, framed by a modern building and a partially collapsed tiled roof.
Historic church and clock tower covered in scaffolding, rising above ruins and vegetation on a hillside.
Roofless ruined interior with peeling plaster, exposed stone, fragments of ornament, and dense vegetation.
Couple walking past a large damaged wall, the man shirtless and the woman wearing a long dark dress.
Man driving a small three-wheeled utility vehicle along a narrow stone street beside an old building.
Isolated pale building surrounded by wooded hills and distant mountain ridges softened by haze.
Descending paved street lined with houses, balconies, lamps, and tiled roofs, with hills beyond.
Empty curving road beside a rough stone wall, with tiled rooftops and layered mountains fading into haze.
Sunlit ruined wall with arched openings at the end of a shadowed stone lane, partly framed by foliage.

Places and dates
Savoca, 2025–2026.