Cultivating
images.
Courses, encounters and cultural pathways through Florence, Tuscany and the Mediterranean.
Dear Pan, and all you other gods of this place, grant that I may become beautiful within, and that what is outside me may be in harmony with what is inside. Plato, Phaedrus
Now
Anima
Mundi
From Giotto and Boccaccio to Cosimo’s garden, from Botticelli’s figures to Buontalenti’s grottoes. A journey through the moments when the world becomes visible again: plural, alive, inhabited by presences.
Upcoming VisionsVisions
01 · Online
Small-group journeys devoted to images, places and the currents that continue to move through them.
Explore the VisionsClearings
02 · Communities
Talks and courses for libraries, community centres, museums, festivals and places that care for the living fabric of a territory.
Bring a Clearing to your communityWalks
03 · On site
Private visits and cultural pathways in Florence, Tuscany and other Italian cities, shaped around the people who take part in them.
Imagine a walkField Notes
Texts, voices, images and other forms of sideways song. The part of the garden that keeps moving between one encounter and the next.
From the garden · Text and voice
Cosimo’s
Garden
Plants were Cosimo’s passion; stones were those of his friend Donatello.Read and listen
Enter the Field Notes
Marco
My name is Marco Mocellin. I work with art, places and people as one works in a garden: preparing the soil, bringing things into relation, and giving them the time they need to reveal themselves.
Meet the gardenerContact
Write to me if you want to imagine a walk, an encounter, a vision or a cultural collaboration.
Let’s talk“Look, here we are.”
James Hillman, “Anima Mundi: The Return of the Soul to the World”