Book “Lidia, the sky is falling” by Maurizio Cogliandro, published by Poscart, March 2010. The illness that hits one’s own mother. A dramatic event that forever marks the lives involved and which becomes a compelling meeting opportunity. Giving one’s self to the other withiut filters, with complicità and complete trust. A private story that turns into a book. Images that welcome us with determination and respect inthe privileged dialogue between a mother and her son, evoking a unique but universal bond.
My mother passed away on the 14th February 2005.
After being diagnosed with an ovaries’ tumour in the Spring of 2000, she spent her last days composing with me a diary of images. The saying goes that a photo speaks a thousand words, but this reality is so intimate that both words and images lose all their value.
These photos aim to be the most truthful and essential – not a social allegation, but a testimony of our bond.
The one who is approaching death longs for life, a life lived with his own family until then, when his status changes and is therefore unknown. Illness catapults us in a new condition, these are the days of those who are drawing near death but who are not necessarily conscient of the fact that it’s going to happen.
The ones who really suffer ask, dream to live and invent something, because they don’t know where else to take refuge.
Hope and awareness blend into each other in their mind and the feeling that is generated enriches each and every one of their daily actions.
My mother made herself completely available to me, she fully trusted my vision to tell people not only about her illness, but also her pain in her abandon.
I hope I have helped her to understand herself.