"Each of us has the opportunity to leave a positive trace of ourselves in the memory of others. Make sure that your footprint is not left in the sand, carving you as a vile coward."
This is the appeal of the artist from Nuoro, Nicola Urru, launched from the beach of Platamona, where he sculpted the image in sand of Alex, the dog beaten to death by a group of kids on the night of August 31st in Bono, during the celebrations of San Raimondo.
A tribute in memory of the poor animal, deaf and blind, who died after three days of agony, beaten in front of some people present in the central square. The message is clear and profound. The invitation is to abandon omertà-like behaviors. "Unfortunately, this silence that distances us from our responsibilities is similar to a poison that insinuates itself into individual and social existence, annihilating, day by day, the vital impulse of every single individual and, consequently, and of the social body in which it is inserted."
In the sand sculpture, the Sorso coast, the representation of the dog between the person who offers him his hand and the person who is preparing to attack him with cruelty.
