3D Detail of “Il Dono del Mantello”

The photo series 3D detail of il dono del mantello documents a transformative travel experience in South Asia, where a simple blue sleeping bag becomes a living conduit to the history of Western art. The object harks back to the specific chromatic detail of Giotto’s fresco Il Dono del Mantello (The Gift of the Mantle), part of the Storie di San Francesco in the Upper Basilica of Assisi. In the original 13th-century masterpiece, the mantle is a “double-faced” fabric of blue and gold—a surface that Pozzi reimagines as a multidimensional bridge.

In this series, Pozzi explores how the chromatic connectivity of two edges of a fabric painted in 2D can represent a 4D equivalent of spooky action at a distance (quantum entanglement). By transposing the blue of Giotto’s mantle into the physical reality of a modern sleeping bag used during a pilgrimage, the artist suggests that space and time are not barriers, but a continuous, folded manifold. From the perspective of Loop Quantum Gravity, the fabric acts as a spin network—a relational web where the “here” of a contemporary journey through Asia and the “there” of a medieval fresco in Italy are inextricably linked. The two colors, blue and gold, represent a state of superposition, a duality that exists simultaneously across different centuries and geographies. The act of photographing this “re-materialized” mantle in South Asia becomes a spiritual and scientific ritual. It is an opportunity to connect vastly different cultures through a gesture of profound humility: the offering of one’s own existence to the Buddha. In this context, the sleeping bag is no longer a mere survival tool, but a Feynman Path Integral made manifest—a “sum over histories” that traces the artist’s path from the Western monastic tradition to Eastern enlightenment. The project document a state of global decoherence, where the observer’s gaze collapses the distance between Assisi and South Asia into a single, sacred coordinate. By “giving the mantle,” Pozzi doesn’t just reference a Franciscan episode; he enacts a multilateral exchange of information, proving that through the “augmented” lens of art and physics, we can inhabit a reality where the ancient and the modern, the sacred and the scientific, are woven into the same cosmic fabric.