The City of Hope

Living awaiting. To face an endless journey, hoping to integrate in a new country, maybe seeing your life’s expectation realized, your own dreams. Simple dreams, normality’s dreams, dreams that stay locked in a city created to contain them all in vitro, as the flame of a candle closed in a container that slowly fades away because of the lack of oxygen. From here it’s everything far away, it’s all again more distant, everything, especially the daily life of the western community, where is needed to integrate to understand the mechanism, the complexity. The refuges of the “Cara di Mineo” live like this. Four-thousand condemned souls wandering in an imaginary city, waiting for an answer, waiting, that Europe emblem of freedom and modernity, so far idealized through the images of a cathode ray tube, would guest them, integrate them. From the “Cara di Mineo” that Europe is still at the same distance, motionless for the imaginary of the people who live it, too close stop hoping, too far to keep hoping.