…whether it’s the beginning of a journey, a simple walk, or just an ordinary morning, the artist draws inspiration from nature. Margherita Bellodi, in particular, is deeply fascinated by trees. She sees them as essential to our lives and cities, as sources of oxygen and vital air. She dreams of placing them in spaces where they’re missing, creating a new kind of aesthetic and, perhaps, inner balance. Each of her works represents a tree that can be placed where there is none —a form that sometimes takes shape in solid matter, and at other times, in the pure projection of shadows…