Against a pastel green-blue background stands a pine tree, its slender crown inscribed within the pictorial space like a fragile silhouette. Behind it emerges a wolf with bared teeth, at once vigilant and archaic. Part of its body remains concealed, as if it had entered the present from another era. The pine, increasingly threatened with extinction in Italy, appears here as a vulnerable witness to a landscape whose delicate ecological harmony is beginning to fracture. Its trunk takes on the character of a figure of memory—a botanical monument to a nature at risk of disappearance. The soft, pastel background intensifies this sense of fragility and suspension: a space between beauty and loss.
The wolf, by contrast, introduces a mythical and historical dimension. It evokes the founding myth of Rome, the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus and became the symbol of an archetype of origins. In its gaze converge the ambivalences of danger, protection, and primordial strength. It appears not merely as an animal, but as a bearer of cultural memory—a figure of beginnings.
Between pine and wolf, a field of tension emerges: natural history encounters myth, threat meets origin, loss meets transmission. The endangered pine becomes a symbol of an ecological drama, while the wolf resonates as an echo of a foundational narrative that continues to shape identity to this day. The work raises the question of what disappears—and what endures: myths, landscapes, species, memories. It lingers in a moment in which the past turns its gaze backward while the present struggles for the future.