Broken Strings

Broken, stringless electric guitar lying on the ground in front of a crumbling stone building in the abandoned hamlet of Pietrapennata, Palizzi, Calabria. Parts of the instrument are damaged and covered in dust, with a dark doorway in the background evoking decay and neglect.

📍Pietrapennata, Calabria — Dusk

I move through crumbling houses and scattered stone.

Fig branches press against collapsing walls, heavy with sun-warmed fruit. Wasps drift nearby, drawn by the sharp sweetness in the air.

A door hangs on its hinges. From inside, a bat cries once.
Then nothing.


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