Processione di Laki

The Processione di Laki wallpaper returns, like a suspended tale, the long line of craters born from the Lakagígar fissure in Iceland: rounded scoria cones covered in thick cushions of moss, the dark mouth of exposed rock marking each summit, following one another in decreasing scale towards a low horizon, under a wide, diffuse sky. It belongs to the volcanic style, a language that does not fear the fury of the earth but takes in the quiet that follows, when fire has become form and time has dressed it in green.

I wanted the eye to travel along the line, from the nearest and most imposing cone to the smallest, far off, almost dissolved in haze — a measured path, never crowded, where the squat mossy ground in the foreground speaks with the vastness of the sky. Close to, the surface reveals what distance hides: the velvety, irregular weave of the moss, broken by pockets of black rock, the fine cracks and mineral crusts on the crater lips, the ochre-rust traces where the iron shows through.

In this landscape I recognise a lesson in patience: earth that was violence becomes, over the centuries, shelter for green. It is the same slow time WallZad gives to every Processione di Laki wallpaper that leaves its atelier, where the material is chosen, printed and hung with the care of those who know that a wall can hold a whole landscape, and give it back, every day, as a quiet regained.