The latest ‘Archiver’ is the ‘Sedimentary’ and it is also the one that underwent fewer transformations, perhaps because the other two that preceded it had worked a bit like a battlefield on which to try out ideas and clarify stages within my work. The ‘Sedimentary’ thus came about in 2017 with a predetermined precision following the natural development of things.
The wood and steel it is made of are the same used to make the ‘Diarytheque’ and the ‘Infinite Painting’, but one centimetre thicker because, being a larger object, it needs sturdier materials. At the beginning I thought a lot about the name that would identify it. I went from ‘Sedimentations-holder’ to ‘Sedimented’, from ‘Sedimenter’ to ‘Archiver #3’ and so on before reaching the current title.
In the early stages I thought for a whole year before deciding what position the ‘Sedimentations’ should take inside the archivers: if they should all be placed facing the exterior or all facing the interior. I finally made a decision, placing some of the remaining paintings facing one way and another part facing the other, in order to be able to perceive the back and front of the painting, or rather the idea of perceiving the painting from one side as an object and from the other as a space that opens out onto the imagination.
The ‘Sedimentary’, which is a sort of storeroom for the ‘Sedimentations’, always changes colour, not because the coloration of the frame changes, but because the position of the canvases that enter, exit, return or don’t return always changes, or due to the fact that gradually new ones are always being added.
The other point that has a constant change of colour is the frontal part, the place where I hang my canvases to paint them. There the imprint is created by registering their passage through the flecks of paint.
Up to today, 31 March 2021, the only structural change that this system has had is the same one that all the elements of the ‘Gestureplace’ have undergone, which was due to the consequences of the ‘acqua alta’ flooding on 12 November 2019.
Raising the floor by 40 cm and the addition of new sturdier wheels means that this element, along with the other ‘Archivers’, has become on the one hand more solid and easier to move, and on the other to represent more clearly a symbolic, almost metaphorical object.
 
(Written in 2021)