For this exhibition, Mastrovito draws inspiration from the legend of the beheading of Saint Alexander depicted in a late 18th-century fresco painted
on the ceiling of the former oratory. According to legend, the blood spurting from the saint's severed head, which fell to the ground, caused flowers to sprout, a sign of the fertility of the blood of martyrs. Mastrovito, as in his
more usual expressive research, works by redrawing the scene of the fresco
and creating an animation to be projected directly onto the fresco. It comes
to life thanks to the projection of his drawing, which creates the additional effect of a trickle of blood running down the walls of the church and arriving on the floor, transfigured into a carpet of flowers, now a classic technique with which Mastrovito, by folding pages of books, creates a paper garden. In the
underground ossuary of the church, the image of the saint's decapitated head is projected, as if buried under the flower garden.