The drama of today's life, with its aspects of human alienation, is underlined by the reminiscing of rocks, of logs, of the roots of the earth that are attached to our youth. Everything goes beyond the personal fortunes of the author, portraying a general problem within today's world: the conflict between nature and technology, between the anxious effort to achieve progress and the nostalgia of a world that is fleeing away. It focuses on the impending threat of the destruction of nature, which is deeply and unavoidably tied to the life of human beings.

Mariano Vasselai's sculptures made us think about that deep link which connected, before the positivistic acquisitions of our times, the peasant of the valley to his environment: the trees, the ground, the mountains, the waters, so much to make him spontaneously carve himself and his home with regards to this tightest link, which was not dependence, but inspiration to realize as a man. Vasselai succeeds in conveying a deep rhytm, basic, in which ancient stories of his Val di Fiemme are told, too.