Pezzentelle Table Altar – Artwork

Oil paint, gold leaf on canvas and wood.
30 x 44 cm, 2025.

Per devozione: A table altar dedicated to everything that has no tomb, no name, and yet refuses to go quiet.

In a time that has slipped the leash of calendars, the Pezzentelle Table Altar is raised for what has been left behind. It stands for the unnamed and unclaimed, for the stories that never made it to stone. It does not belong to any church.

In the old pezzentelle tradition, the living adopt an abandoned skull and care for it, giving the forgotten dead a voice and a home. This table altar continues that work: a small, bright reliquary for everything that has no tomb, no name, and yet refuses to go quiet.

“Where there is no tomb we build altars from thread.
Where there is no name, we speak anyway.
Where there is no prayer, we make one from our hands.
Let the lost not be lonely.
Let the silenced not be still.”