In the Shadow of Home

- Black and White Plate Edition - Carmelo Arnoldin documents his labour of decades to create his vision of a universal home for all-"Mille"-a monumental work of architecture, sculpture and installation art. Mario Gentilin's story begins at the peak of the Second World War, in the northern Italian village of Rev , where his family has lived for five centuries. Surrounded by family and tied to the land, the music, the art and his faith in the truth of Catholicism, Mario-enthralled by the works of Michelangelo, Cano and Bernini-dreams of one day earning the right to be called an artist. With the promise of arts training, Mario enters a seminary and spends four lonely years there, filled with disillusionment, until he decides to immigrate to Canada with his family. In Rev , Mario was embedded in the past and in the present. In Canada, he is a lost soul. He is anonymous, with no identity. Living in a strange land, among people who often see him as strange, Mario is forced to redefine his idea of "home."