Pale Blue Dot

The mural created in Aielli in 2017 remains hermetic and suggestive, in its sheltered and mysterious corner. Its title, however, offers us the opportunity to understand and approach it, even if only in part. The name is a quote from the famous astronomical photograph taken by the Voyager 1 probe in 1990: in the photo our planet is immortalized from the edges of the Solar System and appears from this perspective small and insignificant, a "speck of dust", as the astrophysicist Carl Sagan, a "pale blue dot" that reminds us of our confusion as human beings and the duty we have to take care of each other and of the earth that is our home and that gathers in itself, despite its small size, the entire history of humanity. Alessandrini's wall almost seems like the other side of the same coin, or a different perspective on man and the world, no longer seen from an abysmal distance, but from an extremely intimate and close point of view. With a drastic zoom on our planet it shows us our existence, the man who deals with life and death, with the finite and the infinite, with the enigma of himself made up of fears, anxieties, insecurities. Disturbing symbols stand out around him which show all the human miseries, but perhaps still leave some room for manoeuvre, some glimmers of light and hope, some possibility of choosing for liberation rather than imprisonment: the lizard that smells of change and rebirth, the only branch of the vine that continues to courageously project itself upwards, and above all the prisoner's shirt, positioned halfway between the possibility of putting it on and taking it off, with its lines that meanwhile are dripping and melting throughout the painting, allowing us to imagine a transformation taking place.(cit. Borgo Universo.com)