Nests woven from gathered twigs suddenly appear in boughs of trees. Mauri began his work at Lodi in 1981 with a series of Aquatic Codes made out of locust sticks. La Scala del Paradiso followed the Codes in 1982, and in 1983 he began building his Altari Vegetali , as well as Spore Vegetali in which the intertwining of branches was now used to create closed yet porous spheres. They also make visible the way nature itself is woven together. Take La Scala del Paradiso .
Nature is the artist.
Only half true. Walkers are led towards the open river, on whose ice-covered surface they can take an equally tentative foothold, surrounded by space. Human gesture is transient. Like a series of interlocking crosses with a living forest at its core, La Tierra del Cielo becomes a symbol of resurrection and redemption. Mauri's is an agrarian art with roots in husbandry as well as in early forms of religious expression.