Mille Cipressi is a photographic book composed in 2020. The photographs represent our common reading code and every shot shows and refers to a specific alphabet letter. The pictures taken were contextualized into a single location to generate continuity and consistency. The objective of the project is to create a font that, starting from the photos, may manifest itself through new shapes and give input to our minds through visual stimulation.

The Brion Tomb is a funerary complex designed by Carlo Scarpa between 1969 and 1978 in San Vito d’Altivole, in the province of Treviso. The title "Mille Cipressi" refers to an idea the architect had for this place: to plant a thousand cypresses to create a meditative landscape—an idea never fully realized, yet emblematic of his vision.

This expression captures the essence of Scarpa’s thinking, where architecture, nature, and memory are woven together in a deep, balanced relationship. This photographic book originates from that vision, exploring the Brion Mausoleum as a space of reflection and suspension, where the relationship between the built work and the landscape plays a central role.

The choice of this site as the subject of the collection is closely tied to its configuration: a space for meditation and prayer, free from explicit religious symbols or direct references to Catholic-Christian worship. This absence makes it a place open to all—a universal environment, comparable to an alphabet composed of neutral elements—the letters—which gain meaning only through their arrangement.