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I was not fit to live in Rome, so I was always looking for a different place
Until I met a friend who lived in Toffia
And he brought me here.
I saw Toffia illuminated like a Nativity scene
And to me that image was like a thunderbolt, it made me fall in love with this village.
It was a question of seconds.
The next day I was moving to Toffia.
Because I don t like to live in a big place.
I prefer to live in a smaller place
And most of all to live near the countryside.
Choosing to live here was choosing to find
A place far away from the chaos of the city.
E l altra cosa di Toffia e che era molto bene mantenuta, sembrava viva.
I arrived in Toffia more than twenty years ago.
The doctor told me to go away from Rome.
And by chance I was passing through and there was a place for rent, so I rented it.
Because there was not much to think. If the doctor said that that was the medicine...
I lived in a house in the country nearby
But with the passing of years
It started to become more tiring, being alone
And so I thought it would be better to be in a place a bit more organized, like Toffia.
And here I met my current companion.
By mere chance, we arrived here, and I liked it.
It is different than the Roman countryside.
You didn't think it was such hard work, huh?
I got married in 1966.
Then in 1967.... 1969 I started.
Because I did not know how to harvest olives before.
I learned it like that.
Little by little, because my husband had olive trees, so I started to help him.
When you need to to it, you do it.
Last year we produced 950 liters of oil.
The crisis is also here.
What one sees in a little commune is the lack of resources.
It cannot make many choices in culture, economy, or anything really.
But this is not something that happens in the world, the rest of Europe is not like that.
It is an Italian phenomenon.
But can you tell me why I always have to live through phenomenons?
When I was a child there was Peronismo in Argentina, then later the military junta.
Why do I always get the most extreme periods?
I prefer to live the moment, not always thinking, oh there is a crisis
Or that I cannot do this or that because of politics.
I cannot lose my whole life waiting for the crisis to go away.
I live like this, and I have to say I live better.
La nuova generazione arriva e non trova lavoro
Ma gli italiani sono in generale creativi e bravi a trovare soluzioni
E iniziano a capire che dovranno trovare delle soluzioni creative.
I don't know how it came about.
I was cutting the wood here, cutting there.
And it came out like this.
Always, I don't know how they will come, I never make drawings.
So it is a surprise also for me.
In Italy there is this painter, Piero Manzoni.
It is the one who made the *** in cans.
I met him in Milan.
So as an homage to him, I made this.
Our objective is to be able to perform in public.
This is the basis for any band organization.
You live for this.
You need to make public what you learned in the music school.
Because of the landscape, the olive trees, they reminded me of home