Italy has the largest number of UNESCO Heritage sites in the world, but with the wider economic issues afflicting the country, and particularly the region of Sicily, there is a growing concern that this heritage will crumble to dust.

The project considers the resolution of this issue through the application of a 19th-century form of education: the production of cast replicas of historical artefacts and fragments for exhibition. A landscape of copies that develop their own history become a record of an original that will only ever degrade further.

'Disjecta Membra', a landscape of disparate parts, reawakens the Latomie dei Paradiso, one of the great, ancient limestone quarries that encircle the historic city of Syracuse, Sicily, and which has been left to nature since the earthquakes of 1693. Taking as its site the quarries used in the Second World War to protect local treasures, as well as using both traditional and modern fabrication techniques, the project aims to preserve Sicily’s heritage. The scheme gathers everything together in a more manageable location and oversees the distribution of objects to collections across the world, raising awareness of the particular issues facing the island.