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gli alberi non vagano (trees do not wander) is an olfactory sculpture created for a disused fountain in the heart of the village. The work takes inspiration from the osmoderma eremita, a rare beetle native to the Casentino forests. It lives in decomposing wood and communicates through an intense pheromone. Its life cycle—emergence, signaling, mating—coincides with the period of the artistic intervention. Una Boccata d’Arte thus aligns with the rhythms of the forest, as if the village itself were entering a season of attraction and transformation.

As it changes, the insect’s pupa develops a mutable, irregular, glistening skin. The sculpture reflects this metamorphosis, shaped in ceramic to evoke the same tactile and visual qualities: fragile yet resilient, matte yet luminous. Its shape also recalls the nozzles and structure of a medieval distiller, preserved in the nearby Camaldolese convent—a unique object in both form and history. The work does not alter the fountain, but inhabits it discreetly, like the beetle inside a hollow trunk.

Visitors can collect the scent using small sticks made from local wood and take them away. The fragrance is sweet—some say it smells like peach. Each stick holds a trace of the forest: just a few grams, suggesting how wood, left alive where it grows, can still hold value. Not as a resource to be extracted, but as a living presence that supports another kind of economy and landscape.

The project grew out of conversations with artisans, nuns, administrators, entrepreneurs, and cultural workers. At its core is the need to rethink our relationship with the forest and to rewrite its imaginary—giving sensory form to the deep connection this community maintains with the woods. Here, material and spiritual cultures coexist: wood and prayer, care and labor. The placement of the fountain symbolically links the convent, the church, and the headquarters of the National Park.
A public program is being developed in collaboration with the Casentinesi Forests National Park.

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Artwork
01. ​Stella Rochetich, gli alberi non vagano, 2025, scent-diffusing sculpture on inactive public furniture, wood, scent (y-decalactone), 70 x 70 x 70 cm.Piazza Jacopo Landino, Pratovecchio Stia (AR)

​Stella Rochetich (Rome, Italy, 1997) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Rome. In 2018, she earned her BA in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she also completed her MA in Painting in 2021. That same year, she co-founded the artist-run space Porto Simpatica. Her research focuses primarily on the sense of smell, understood as an invisible thread weaving new imaginaries, where memory, identity, relationships, and archives intertwine. In 2024, she participated in the fourth edition of Lab For New Imaginations at MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome and in the group exhibition Great Expectations at SPAZIOMENSA, both in Rome. Between 2024 and 2025, she is an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris.