Abyss

ABYSS is a real immersion in a Venetian canal. Touching the metal base you can see the scene with different light intensities, variables such as the weather and the sun in the historic lagoon city. So when the light reaches the aquamarine resin gives us the thrill of a ray of sunlight filtered through the Lagoon waters, and capturing the underwater air bubbles that bring the wood back to its original place. The piece of wood is a real fragment of Bricola, that are the famous timber poles planted in the Lagoon seabed. The result is like a submerged cross-section of this extraordinary underwater world. According to alcarol's idea of environmental cross-section, the pieces of Bricola Collection re-use and gives new life to Oak poles recovered in the Venice Lagoon. During the years in the canals, these poles are subjected to unremitting labour of lagoon molluscs and atmospheric agents that carve and sculpt the wood, so that each piece is unique. Using a patented and elaborated resination process, alcarol preserves intact the natural and peculiar live edges, filling the gaps and capturing the underwater air bubbles that bring the wood back to the original look and conditions. At the same time, the natural wood surface on the section planes is not not covered by resin, in order to guarantee a different experience of touch and sight, and to give their essential characteristics: warmth and matt porosity from natural wood, elegance and evocative transparency from the resin.