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 This custom involves people coming together in the heart of nature, where they engage in an activity of physical closeness for hours. Participants form a circle or gather in pairs, using a sticky, natural resin or adhesive substance derived from trees in the woods. They apply this adhesive to specific clothes,usually in old traditional clothes , and then join together, often intertwining limbs or pressing their sticky surfaces against each other. 

The ritual signifies unity, trust, and the interconnectedness of the community with nature. It's a symbolic act of bonding, where individuals commit to supporting each other and the environment, much like the trees that provide the adhesive. The shared experience fosters a strong sense of belonging, cooperation, and solidarity among the participants, creating lasting connections and reinforcing the importance of togetherness within the community.

Amorphous: a journey through non-time, a journey through non-place

The village of Amorphous with a huge history behind it is now in an era of abandonment and decline, a result inextricably linked to capitalism and globalisation. The values represented by the village, with its historical ancestors who were half descendants of saints and the rest guerrilla communists who defected, no longer resonate in the modern world. 
The few jobs on offer are mostly manual - fishermen, farmers - or small businesses - hawkers, shoemakers. Over the last few decades, young people have been leaving the village, but despite its decline, there has been a slow but visible return of people to it. 
Simple people who want to live their lives in a simple way and close to nature, people who decide to start a family far away from the modern way of life choose to live in Amorphus not just as a place but as a way of life. It's kind of like a realistic utopia and the village despite its decline somehow maintains a certain culture. The historical-social context has as its basic principles the harmony with nature and the vigilance of being , in every form, both anthropomorphic and divine or biocentric. 
Amorphus, forgotten by most people now, seems to be stopped in a timeless and placelessness reality, where the imaginary of society was created by the fusion of these two different forms of culture: the tradition of the saints and the communist tradition.  Perhaps the price of decadence is high, but it still inspires people to live there.

Beauty is the exit of the one who has objectified himself in the realm of purposes and now abandons it."

Adorno. W. Theodor

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