After completion of the original Guida di Campagna in wax and bamboo, I had to cut away the upper and lower parts for the casting processes ahead. In doing so I found that the base alone was a wonderful piece of sculpture (not surprising as it took so long to construct the base itself). A mold was made of the base, a wax casting of it gave me the foundation for a new landscape as well as a finished piece I called Kachina. I've spent a lot of time in the Southwest United States, especially Santa Fe. As I began construction of a new landscape, I shifted from the images of the Hopi to that of a rising mound in the New Mexico high desert. In this vast isolation, microwave towers with silent energy crocheted the horizon joining nowhere and somewhere. Transmissione/Silenzo was born in that Tuscan studio on a rainy afternoon. My minds' ear was awash in silence as the rain shelled the tin roof like an unrelenting machine gun. I conceived this piece as a fascinating dialog of man's communicative needs to hear and be heard. If one were in the desert lacking water one could associate readily "I thirst!" if the other orifice to the head the ear did not receive sound what word would you use to express this deprivation that has the same impact as "I thirst"?

The alignment variations of all sectional bamboo drums suggest receptions and transmissions in multi-direction in the high deserts of New Mexico, microwave towers house an architecture of Communicative Silence. Rolling down the car window you listen for an electronic pulse in the air. Nothing!