These photographs document the final moments of a 3 kg block of clay that I took care off and carried with me daily for three months, cohabiting with it in my backpack until the day of its burial in a public park in Milan.

Rather than sculpting it with tools or hands, I allowed time, movement, and everyday life to shape it—its surface marked by the imprints of my belongings: a wallet, a water bottle, pens, groceries. The process sought to humanize the clay, evoking a quasi-biblical transformation through wear and experience.

Visually, the series draws on the iconography of the Passion of Christ, reinforced by its title and color palette. The work echoes Genesis 3:19:

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Beyond the photographs, viewers are invited to visit the buried clay, reflecting on its relationship to materiality, care, and transience. The choice of weight—3 kg—mirrors the average newborn, reinforcing the clay’s fragility and dependency. Like an infant, it could not communicate, yet mishandling led it to dry out and lose its creative potential, rendering it inert.