I took these visual notes during my visits to Marsala, a city where I feel I have a family, even if acquired.
My nature as a researcher of places and spaces has led me to snoop around the urban texture of the historic centre of the city, but little by little even to come out of it and know its surroundings.

In the last 5 years I have therefore resumed a "different" Marsala outside the stereotypes, I did not want to put its main monuments in the foreground, except as transverse foreshortenings or details, and I concentrated on the dense network of the alleys of the historic centre, with shafts of light and yellow colors reinforced by the light of the pavement, as well as exploring the suburbs, from the Sappusi district on the seafront to Mazara and on to the cemetery, a place of personal memory, where the remains of the Marsalese poet Vittorio Cimiotta lie.

The photographic operation is a means of acquiring awareness of the place, a way of appropriating its visual identity.
With these research notes, there is a suggestion not to look only at the Saline or the Chiesa Madre, but to discover the nature of the city, even where the "beauty" is not, or perhaps it is hidden, or perhaps, in the future it can be made.

Toni Garbasso