Of Dust and Light

Broken Strings

Pietrapennata, Calabria

Figs were wilting on the trees.
Wasps buzzed around them.

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.