03 Oct

What lies between the mountains and the sea?

Driving along the coast of southern Italy, a road unfolds in front of you clinging onto any ledge available and revealing the steep cliff that enters the sea almost completely vertical below you. These mountains wrinkle up and down the coast, alternating between fingers that reach into the sea and crevices that allow the sea to pour into the mountain. These crevices are where you find the terraced town of Amalfi along with many other port cities stretched along the thing string of the mountain highway. Amalfi begins in the crevice between two fingers of mountains and grows up into the mountain taking its form, allowing the city to bend just as the mountain. At certain pointes the city even grows up out of the mountain as if it were part of the mountain. The setting of the city becomes the form allowing the city of Amalfi to reach into the sea as the mountains do.