Marco Michelini

It is April and it is now a year since this pandemic began.In the previous article “Todos necessitamos arte”, I tried to share some thoughts on the importance of art in our lives focusing mainly on photographic images because they are the form of expression I know best.

I have recently seen a TV series, Spinning out. It’s the story of a skater, Kat, who has an accident that interrupts her career and she has to find the strength to react to the trauma and return to compete, also overcoming the conflict with her mother, a former skater who left her career because of Kat’s birth.

Less than one year ago our Country was entering lockdown for the first time and we were all about to face something unique and dramatic at the same time, which repercussions we are still living with a great deal of uncertainty. It is still hard to see the finish line, but it has been and it is of crucial importance to find an adequate way to orient ourselves.

We interviewed Sara Lazzaro, professor of literary subjects and vice principal at the Liceo Scientifico Statale G.B. Grassi, the first scientific high school in the city of Latina, born in 1965.

Here is the interview we had with her on the theme of the new teaching…

I assume you’re all familiar with Stevenson’s novel of 1886, “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” which has now entered the popular language. The story tells us of a doctor, Dr Jekyll, who understands that the truth of human nature is to be split into two (“Man is not truly one but truly two”), a good part and a bad one.

In a famous tv series released in recent years a young boy gets lost in a dark and cold place, populated by dangerous creatures that his friends call “upside down”. This strange place threatens to invade and infect the everyday reality of a small American city.